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 ReviewI gave the first book in this series, A Desert Called Peace (love that title by the way) 4 stars, but only because it was so violent and shocking in places that I wanted to warn the faint of heart. If you made it through that first one and are thinking about tackling this second one than faintheartedness ain't likely to be a problem, so I'm giving 5 stars. This novel is superb and I am genuinely hooked on this series (I hope there are many more to come). It is every bit as thought-provoking as the first novel, filled with action, drama and even some laugh-out-loud humor. Ironically I thought this novel would be based mostly around the aircraft carrier and naval battles, and I didn't think that would be as interesting a setting. I was wrong on both counts. There are parts of the story that are centered on the naval battles, but the vast majority of the story takes place on land... and the naval battles are every bit as interesting, fun, and exciting as the rest of the story (if not more so).
Tom Kratman is fast becoming one of my favorite authors (also I wish someone like him was running our military, but that's a separate issue).
This book is fun, thought-provoking, interesting, and if you're at all like me you won't be able to tear yourself away from it.Posted on
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Product ReviewGreat action, cliffhanging, sword fights, True Love, or "To Bluff", ok I made that up, but seriously very very good book. Damn it Kratman put the Arc out for Caliphate! I dont want to wait any more (and I finished it 4 days ago).
Quite thought provoking in many ways. Hits on a lot of interesting topics, and responses to them. Careful, you may learn something by reading these books. (gasp!)
2nd book in the series, both are Excellent!
Tom has moved firmly into the "Buy on Site" books along with Weber, Ringo, Drake, Bujold, Flint, etc etc.Posted on
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Product ReviewThis book just rocks. A grim look at revenge and war. Excellent action/battle scenes and very good characterization. Even some dark humor.
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