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Other Times Than Peace

Heed the Slammers Battle Cry!

A warrior's truth: "In the long run, everybody's dead. So screw the long run!" Patriotic hoo-ha may be well-and-good for recruitment parades, but David Drake's battle-hardened mercenaries know it takes tanks, guns and grit to win when the real fighting flares. Yet peace brings its own problems to old soldiers—for killing potential enemies in battle is self-limiting, but once the killing starts in peacetime, there may be no end to the madness.

Two new "Hammer's Slammers" adventures crown this masterful collection of hard-hitting SF tales from legendary military SF action-master and best-seller, David Drake.

Cover Art by Kurt Miller

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, August 2006

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2076-4
ISBN-10: 1-4165-2076-7

Copyright © 2006 by David Drake
"Introduction: A Range of Treatments" copyright © 2006 by David Drake; "Lambs to the Slaughter" was first published in Foreign Legions edited by David Drake, copyright © 2001; "Men Like Us" was first published in Omni magazine copyright © 1980; "The Day of Glory" copyright © 2006; "The Interrogation Team" copyright © 1978; "A Death in Peacetime" copyright © 2006 by David Drake; "Dreams in Amber" was first published in Whispers V edited by Stuart David Schiff copyright © 1985; "Safe to Sea" was first published in Space Fighters edited by Joe Haldeman, Charles G. Waugh and Martin Harry Greenberg copyright © 1988; "The Murder of Halley's Comet" by David Drake and Larry Niven was first published in The Fleet: Breakthrough edited by David Drake and Bill Fawcett copyright © 1989; "The Hunting Ground" was first published in Superhorror edited by Ramsey Campbell copyright © 1976; "The False Prophet" was first published in Vettius and His Friends copyright © 1989; "A Grand Tour" is a different version of a story that appeared in More than Honor edited by David Weber, originally copyright © 1998; this version copyright © 2006 by David Drake.

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