The Road to Damascus
β Scribed by Ringo, John; Evans, Linda; Laumer, Keith
- Book ID
- 109470121
- Publisher
- Baen
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 2 MB
- Series
- Bolo 13
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780743499163
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Keith Laumerβs Bolos are Back-andNew York TimesBest-Selling Author John Ringo has Signed on with the Bolo Brigade! First Time in Paperback.
When a ruthless political regime seizes power on a world struggling to recover from alien invasion, a former war hero finds herself leading a desperate band of freedom fighters. Kafari Khrustinova, who fought Deng infantry from farmhouses and barns, finds herself struggling to free her homeworld from an unholy political alliance, headed by the charismatic and ambitious Vittori Santorini, which has seduced her young daughter with its propaganda and subverted the planetβs Bolo, using the war machine to crush all political opposition. To free her homeworld, Kafari must somehow cripple or kill the Bolo she once called friend. Unit SOL-0045, "Sonny," is a Mark XX Bolo, self-aware and intelligent. When Sonnyβs human commander is forced off-world, Sonny tries to navigate his way through ambiguous moral and legal issues, sinking into deep confusion and electronic misery. He eventually faces a dark night of the soul, with no guarantee that he will understand-let alone make-the right decision. And caught in the middle of this volatile battlefield is Yalena Khrustinova, Kafariβs young daughter. Will she open her eyes in time to save herself-and millions of innocents-or will Santoriniβs relentless brainwashing campaign continue to blind her while the tyrant engineers the ultimate destruction of a helpless and enslaved population?
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