The Honour of the Knights

Blurb

The Honour of the Knights is a science fiction novel written by Stephen J Sweeney, the First Edition of which is licensed under Creative Commons. It was first published in 2009 and is the first book in the Battle for the Solar System novel trilogy. Sweeney wrote the novel after losing his job during the collapse of Lehman Brothers investment bank in 2008. He briefly appeared in national press in September 2009, including The London Evening Standard, BBC News, and Sky News for what was considered to be one of the more interesting career shifts after the fall of the bank.
The story is set in the year 2617 and revolves around five starfighter pilots - mainly one named Simon Dodds - who begin to discover that an Imperial nation's purported civil war and the disappearance of a massive battleship are all lies, created by the Confederacy to keep the truth away from as many people as possible. The novel shows the story from a number of different points of view, from the pilots themselves, to naval top brass, and to spies and agents who are working to keep the truth contained.