At twenty-three, Jazen Parker has completed his Legion hitch a hero. But in four months, he'll have a price on his head. Worse, he's lost his past, and he can’t find his future. Worst of all, he's chosen to search for them on the deadliest planet known to mankind.
When Jazen reluctantly hires on to a Trueborn Earthman tycoon's safari to bag a deadly trophy, the reluctant mercenary finds himself shipped out to Downgraded Earthlinke 476, the outpost at the end of the universe known to everyone except its tourism bureau as "Dead End."
But the hunt goes terribly wrong, and Jazen must survive a tough, beautiful local guide who hates mercenaries, an eleven ton beast that can crush main battle tanks with one claw tied behind its back, and the return of a nightmare that has haunted Jazen since birth. Then Jazen learns that the stakes are not merely his own life, but the fate of an entire alien race.
About the Author
Robert Buettner was born July 7, 1947 in Manhattan, grew up in Cleveland and eventually slid west to Colorado. He earned a B.A. from the College of Wooster, with Honors in geology, then studied as a National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology at the University of Cincinnati, earning a Juris Doctorate. He worked in mining as a rig hand and prospector in the Sonoran Desert of Southwest Texas and the mountains of Alaska, and worked his way through law school as a petroleum geologist. He practiced natural resources law while serving out his Army Reserve Intelligence Commission as a Captain. He has been writing fiction since 1994. When not writing, he’s run marathons, climbed mountains, snowboarded and scuba'd. He currently lives in the foothills of the Blue Ridge north of Atlanta with his family and more bikes than a grownup needs.
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Product ReviewI liked Overkill enough that I will be looking for the first five books written by the same author to get filled in on details not found in this book. I do wonder how a telepath will do on a planet of non-telepaths in the future, so I will also be reading any other novels he publishes.
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Product ReviewI especially like to read about what aliens think.
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Product ReviewI got this book as part of a Baen bundle and honestly didn't expect much. I was ready for an enjoyable - but ultimately forgettable - run through the jungle. Something along the lines of "March to the Sea" by Weber and Ringo, perhaps. But I got more than that. The characters were great, especially the alien, the setting was broader and the entire story had a lot more depth than I anticipated. It was better than the Andre Norton book I bought the bundle for originally
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Product ReviewROBERT BUETTNER'S REPLY TO JASON:
Thanks for the kind words about Overkill, and thanks for your service.
Okay, one more time. You are exactly right about the Abrams, but so is Overkill. REREAD the passages. As you say, the Abrams carries extra ammo in a thin-lidded hull box, outboard of the turret. Overkill says EXACTLY AND ONLY that. The fictional Kodiak hovertank has a very different sponson (fender) and carries ITS extra ammo in ITS thin-lidded sponson box, outboard of ITS turret. As for entry, you describe how the driver exits, then reenters, a tank thru the TC's hatch when the turret is reversed for transport. That is EXACTLY what and why Jazen and Zhondro do that in Overkill. I have photos of me aboard an Abrams prep'd for transport to Iraq that demonstrate all this. I'll do a blog post showing this to put it to rest. But probably futile. Dad was a tanker. Mom said you can always tell tankers, but you can't tell 'em much. Sigh.Posted on
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Product ReviewI quite enjoyed this book, but really wanted to weigh in on the Abrams debate. I have to say, you may have gotten better info visiting 1st BCT, 3ID (Go Raiders!). In one invasion of a sovereign country and a follow on tour in some of its nicest cities, I never saw a sponson box with main gun ammo in it. Hull storage is a six round ammo holder accessed by putting the tank in travel lock turret position ( gun over back deck, off center ~5 degrees). A pain in the ass to get to because it is in the um... hull. Sponson boxes are for pogie bait and machine gun ammo and sleeping on. They have blow off panels if you consider lowest bidder construction "blow off". Really more akin to fall off construction. The blow out panels are over the main gun storage
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