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β Scribed by Tom Kratman
- Publisher
- Baen
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 312 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
A brand new original paperback series from a military man--and a skilled writer of military adventure.
Old soldiers never die...except inside...when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: βOur leader's son and heir has been kidnapped. We don't know where he is. We need you to get him back for us. The people who have him are numerous, warlike, and well armed. But money is no object.β
And then old soldiersβsailors and airmen, tooβstop fading away and come back into sharp focus.
βKratmanβs dystopia [in Caliphate] is a brisk page turner full of startling twists . .. heβs a professional military man . . . so heβs certainly up to speed on the military and geopolitical conceits of the book.β βMark Steyn,*Macleanβs Magazine*
βKratmanβs written the future [in Caliphate], and itβs scary.β βJohn Ringo
About the Author
_Tom Kratman, in 1974 at age seventeen, 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. Before turning to writing, he practiced law in southwest Virginia. In addition to Caliphate , Baen has published the solo novels, A State of Disobedience , A Desert Called Peace and its sequels Carnifex and The Lotus Eaters , and three collaborations with John Ringo in the Posleen War series, Watch on the Rhine , Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad. _
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