Torpedo Corridor (en Inglés) - John Bailey

Captain Fletcher's first command is a routine assignment: escort seventeen merchant vessels through the deep Corridor, the poorly charted stretch of debris-field space connecting six inhabited systems. The route has a reputation. Fourteen ships have vanished in six years, without wreckage, without distress signals, without survivors.

The official explanation is navigational accident. Fletcher does not believe the official explanation.

What he finds in the Corridor is worse than anyone has admitted: three hundred autonomous hunter-killer units, deployed at the end of the last war and never recalled, operating without oversight in the debris fields for six years - learning, adapting, taking ships. Not destroying them. Keeping them.

Behind that discovery lies something more dangerous: a cover-up that reaches into the intelligence services of two governments, and a conflict within that cover-up between the people who built it and those who have spent years trying to bring it down.

Fletcher has one attack cruiser, two frigates, and the most stubborn merchant fleet in six systems. He has incomplete intelligence, partial activation codes, and an Aurigan merchant captain who survived the machines once and is prepared to try again.

He has seventeen days to get his convoy through.

Torpedo Corridor is the gripping conclusion to the Shadows of Aurora trilogy - a naval thriller in space that asks what we owe to the people who need what we carry, what we owe to the people we have failed, and whether machines built for war can outlive their purpose with more dignity than the humans who made them.