A Desert Called Peace (Desert Called Peace Series #1) by Tom Kratman
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(Mass Market Paperback - Reprint)
- Pub. Date: December 2008
- 1024pp
- Sales Rank: 131,184
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: December 2008
- Publisher: Baen Books
- Format: Mass Market Paperback, 1024pp
- Sales Rank: 131,184
- Series: Desert Called Peace Series, #1
- ISBN-13: 9781416555926
- ISBN: 1416555927
- Edition Description: Reprint
Synopsis
Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earth-like planet and settled there, dividing –as humans will — into dozens of nation-states. The Federated States of Columbia has consolidated power and risen against the oppression of Earth's corrupt Caliphate. But when Salafi madmen bent on a new jihad kill FSC Captain Patrick Hennessey's family in a cowardly attack, they create an enemy that will show even less mercy than they do.
A legendary warrior is born: Carrera, the scourge of Salafism. He will forge an army from the decrepit remains of a military in a failing state. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them utterly. And he will try like hell to not become exactly like the enemy he is fighting.
Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera's enemies.
Biography
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. Tom is currently an attorney practicing in southwest Virginia. Baen published his first novel, A State of Disobedience and two collaborations with John Ringo in the Posleen War series, Watch on the Rhine and Yellow Eyes.
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was hoping for moreby Anonymous
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June 29, 2009: Good premise, but couldnt get past the first 1/3. Story seemed frastured and dissjointed.
An Epic About the Costs of Vengence or Willful Ignoranceby Ringo_Fan999
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February 23, 2009: The author says so many things in this book that it's hard to pin down just a few. Likely some will think it implausible, but it's not. Likely those folks are the same ones who often say "it'll never happen to me", if only inside their own minds. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilence." Not just from outside, but vigilence directed inward as well (see another of this author's books). This book shapes an eternal subject in a way that makes it easy to relate with. In fighting one's enemies, it takes a lot of effort and constant attention to avoid becoming just like them. Nor is the moral high ground always possible, if one wishes to continue eating and living. That's not a threat, folks, just a fact.
I Also Recommend: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, State of Disobedience, Off Armageddon Reef (Safehold Series #1), Hell Hath No Fury (Multiverse Series #2), The Last Centurion.
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