BE CAREFUL WHO YOU CHOOSE AS YOUR ENEMY,
HE'S GOING TO BECOME JUST LIKE YOU
Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family; He's raised an army and air force and used them. He's raised a fleet and he's about to use that. He's suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He's tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way.
Now he's deployed his legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home, revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a little of his dwindling humanity.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept mountains of Pashtia. Only Carrera's hate still burns hot, and that's a fire that is slowly consuming him.
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, put up with this for years. He no longer practices law, instead writing full time for Baen. His novels for Baen include A State of Disobedience, A Desert Called Peace, to which Carnifex is a sequel, and the forthcoming Caliphate, as well as two collaborations with John Ringo, Watch on the Rhine and Yellow Eyes.
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Product ReviewWOW KEEP"EM COMMING CAN"T WAIT FOR "THE LOTUS EATERS" !!!!!!!!!
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Product ReviewGOOD book and GOOD story. Keep it coming, I can't wait for the next one.
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Product ReviewThe Mil-SF equivalent of a bodice-ripper. Plenty of action, gore, and melodrama. Not to mention Good Guys and Bad Guys.
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Product ReviewGood book, although the author falls in to the trap that he's trying to preach. That is, taking his own viewpoint as the only true one. There is very little gray areas in this book, it's all black and white and the only real solution to any problem seems to be force. In his opinion all liberal thinking of any kind is wrong, and he leans right enough to approach facism. Also, he uses europe as an example of feeling superior without any concrete reason to feel superior. You could say that about US, as well. Other than his rather obvious militaristic american patriotic views tainting the story sometimes slighty too much for suspension of disbelief, the story is excellent. I do recommend reading this series if you like military sci-fi (the world building is excellent) and don't mind slighty self-indulgent worldview. Don't take this wrong, though. The writing & the book is pretty damn good.
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Product ReviewIf you're looking for a 'progressive' author to tell you a story about how wonderful things will be once we all learn to get along and 'share', then this is NOT that book, and Tom Kratman is NOT that man. Thank God. This is his best solo effort to date, though the sample chapters of Caliphate look to be just as good or better. This is the continuation of the epic started in 'A Desert Called Peace', and reads like a cross between a Tom Clancy techno-thriller and a kind of an alternate history where most of the nations and many of the characters and events have a strong correlation to the recent past and the current War On Terror. Thus these two novels serve as Kratman's thoughts on 'one way' the War on Terror might have been fought differently. It will make you think, regardless of whether you agree with the way the War has been fought, wish it had been handled differently, or think it shouldn't have been attempted at all. It will also make you think about where mankind is headed irrespective of the War on Terror.
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