Publisher Description

War is brutal. Colonel Wes Stauer gets it. He ought to. He was onceone of war's most brutal practitioners — not to mention one of its mosteffective and least bloody. Brutal yes; stupid no. Now, not only mustStauer command his crack outfit of former comrades and pull off yet anothermiracle mission, he must also harness and direct the brute within himself— a beast he will need in order to destroy an intelligent enemy who is asimplacable as Stauer himself. Okay, almost as implacable. There will bewar. And there will be warriors like Wes Stauer who have the know-how and, onceset in motion, the unstoppable professional drive, to see the bad guys to theirgraves and destroy every last earthly piece of their nastylegacies!

Notes

A follow-up to Countdown: The Liberators.

Author Biography

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, with the bottom dropping completely out of the anti-communist market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. 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, Caliphate, and the series consisting of A Desert Called Peace, Carnifex, The Lotus Eaters, The Amazon Legion, Come and Take Them, The Rods and the Axe, and A Pillar of Fire by Night. With John Ringo, he has written the novels Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes, and The Tuloriad. Also for Baen, he has written the first three volumes of the modern-day military fiction series Countdown.

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