The Middle of Nowhere — David Gerrold

On a starship doomed to scrap, all they asked was a chance to go down fighting. . . .

A SHIP WITH NO NAME
They should have returned heroes. Instead they were treated as pariahs. Stripped of a hard-won victory, cheated out of a well-deserved bounty, the crew of the Star Wolf was devastated when their ship was decommissioned, even its name erased from the record. For political reasons alone, the Admiralty has decided to scrap the ship and turn its back on one of its finest commanders. But Jon Korie will not fade quietly away.

He will rally his crew in defiance of orders and set forth on one final mission to prove his superiors wrong--or die trying. Korie knows that the ship has been compromised by a Morthan saboteur. Anticipating a course that will lead straight to a deadly rendezvous with an unknown Morthan force, Korie must race against time to find the booby trap that threatens his ship...before the Morthans find him.