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HE RAISED AN ARMY
AGAINST THOSE WHO
TOOK EVERYTHING FROM HIM

They should have picked their enemies more carefully.

Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because uncle was rich and Hennessey was rather a good colonel. But they also murdered Hennessey's wife, Linda, and their three small children, and that was their worst mistake for she was the only restraint Hennessey had ever accepted.

From the pile of rubble and the pillar of fire that mark the last resting place of Linda Hennessey and her children arises a new warrior—Carrera, scourge of the Salafis. He will forge an army of ruthless fanatics from the decrepit remains of failed state's military. He will wage war across half a world. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them, and those who support them, utterly, completely, without restraint or remorse.

Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera's enemies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In 1974, at age seventeen, Tom Kratman became a political refugee and defector from the PRM (People's Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch. Back in the Army, he managed to do just about everything there was to do, at one time or another. After the Gulf War, and with the bottom dropping completely out of the anti-communism market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. (Big mistake, way big. Chilluns, don't do it.) Every now and again, when the frustrations of legal life and having to deal with other lawyers got to be too much, Tom would rejoin the Army (or a somewhat similar group, say) for fun and frolic in other climes. His family, muttering darkly, still puts up with this. His novels for Baen include A State of Disobedience and two collaborations with John Ringo, Watch on the Rhine and Yellow Eyes.

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  1. Dreadful, again
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    It's clear why so many of this author's books are in the free library - almost no one is willing to pay for them.

    One of many of Kratman's "so far right that even Pence can't see him" screeds, where progressive = totally evil, where his hatreds become caricatures, where the writing quality could never be enough to overcome his bias. He is Ringo, on steroids, squared and cubed, but I am guessing that the only reason Baen carries him at all is because the two of them are buddies.

    If you want right wing SF that doesn't choke you on the hate and actually is readable, choose most anything by Ringo. If you think that Fox News is the word of god, and Trump is his prophet, then pick anything y Kratman.

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  2. Great Series
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    The author attempts to expose that the starting precept of mercy towards a enemy with no honour is rediculous. If you think what is being described is extreme in the context of Islamic terrorism this is only because the west does not truly see them as a real nation destroying threat. If this were to change see how quickly the veil of civilisation departs the scene. When you tisk your entire family being destroyed for hiding a terrorist family member the motivation to protect them suddenly seems far less automatic. Does Bin Laden ring any bells. You better believe his family was still helping him after 9/11.

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  3. An exercise in facism
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    This poorly written polemic tries to excuse torture, Mercenaries, and murder. It is repative drivel best used to stop erosion in a garbage dump.

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    Would have been better if he had adopted a more neutral POV.

    I have no problem with him being right wing but he should be more moderate: not all journalist are seeking to blame the military and not every member of a non governemental association is ready to help terrorists...

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    As a "movie with explosions", it's perfectly fine, just don't expect anything else. But, even as a movie with explosions, it would gain a lot if you guys could get him an editor that's knowledgeable in Spanish. Despanish pahts ah ridden lik dis... I read it all the way to the end because I didn't have anything else left, but I'm staying away from the rest of the series until somebody swears to me on the complete works of Lope that the Spanish parts get less eye-bleeding (and, occasionally, stupid, like that scene where a Hispanic finds the word "ala" strange and the Anglo protagonist explains that it's Latin for wing - guess the Spanish word for wing, you have one try). If you can't speak Spanish beyond asking for beer, bed or the bathroom, grab a tub of popcorn; if you can actually write decent Spanish... don't.

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    Overall, the book had good elements of sci-fi with details about technology and how the future was created, as well as Kratman's description of battles and character development were decent.
    However, too much of the plot relies upon history and real people: the tragic events that move Hennessey to become a fighter mirror September 11, 2001, and fictionalize the tragedy of those days right down to two towers being struck by flying ships hijacked by Muslim terrorists, Hennessey watching the events on repeat on a newscast, etc. Yes, real governments have to deal with terrorism and there should be satire of how they handle it, but the similarity should not be so close as to trivialize the true events.
    Kratman also attempts to deal with religion and the ways it plays out in politics. While I appreciate his effort to lend realism to the characters, he fails to give his book credibility by starting out with all Muslims as the bad guys (and only later showing some of them to be very honorable with the help of Christians), treating all Muslims as a unified group instead of as Sunnis and Shiites, and using Western stereotypes of Islam.
    Also, if you have younger readers, there is language (as would be expected in war novels), but also plenty of random and graphic sex sequences that could easily have been removed without harming the plot.

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