Berserker's Star

Berserker(r) Series, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the
terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction.
Pilot
Harry Silver's name is known throughout the galaxy-and that notoriety
does not always work in his favor. While he has defeated his share of
Berserkers, he has also stolen a powerful weapon from the Space Force,
making him a fugitive from the life he once knew. Looking for an
adventure, and not one to turn down a lot of cash, Harry agrees to bring
a passenger aboard his ship, Lily, a woman who is on a quest to
retrieve her husband.
It won't be easy, as Lily's husband has
joined a secretive religious cult on Maracanda, an almost-planet lodged
between a shifting black hole and a neutron star. While the landscape of
Maracanda is treacherous, so, too, may be the people around Harry
Silver.
As the search for Lily's husband deepens, Harry finds
himself investigating a larger mystery and looking for missing person,
almost ending up one himself. And as always, there is the threat of
death from above, in the path of a machine whose only intent is to kill.
. . .