For the first few years, Rick Galloway and his band of mercenaries were doing well just to survive. They'd been swept off a hilltop in Africa by a flying saucer, and deposited on an alien world where the other inhabitants were human - but from various and unfriendly periods of history, all collected
Janissaries, clan and crown
โ Scribed by Jerry Pournelle; Roland Green
- Publisher
- Ace Books
- Year
- 2010;1982
- Tongue
- UND
- Weight
- 195 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
SUMMARY:
On a planet populated by humans kidnapped from different periods in Earth's history, Rick Galloway and a band of mercenaries attempt to unite the warring groups of humans
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