Trouble Walked In by Mike Kupari. A PI on another world searches for the missing sister of his client. It's a decent page-turner.
Trouble Walked In by Mike Kupari. A PI on another world searches for the missing sister of his client. It's a decent page-turner.
If we have to march off into the next world, let us walk there on the bodies of our enemies.
I enjoyed reading that book. Another good one by Mike is The Family BusinessOriginally Posted by Stephanie B
Decades ago, the Visitors descended on Earth. They claimed to bring peace and prosperity. Their real goal was the total subjugation of humankind. But humanity did not give up its only home without a fight.
After a devastating war, the Visitors were driven back to Mars. Their millions of willing human collaborators were left behind. The task of hunting down these former alien collaborators and bringing them to justice falls to Federal Recovery Agents like Nathan Foster.
Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.
I just finished The Centurions based on some of the posts in this thread.
What a beautiful, awful, terrible, excellent book. If it wasn't a library book, I would have highlighted so many passages.
I'll read The Praetorians at some point. Thanks to all who recommended it.
I'm going to look into both of these. I missed the earlier endorsements.
There's nothing civil about this war.
Do not fear comrade, President Ho-Chi-Min has given orders.......to apply a policy of leniency towards all prisoners led astray by the imperialist capitalists.....
You can confess this error during the self-examination time tomorrow morning.
Do not fear comrade, President Ho-Chi-Min has given orders.......to apply a policy of leniency towards all prisoners led astray by the imperialist capitalists.....
You can confess this error during the self-examination time tomorrow morning.
Hey, I was in high school and college when chants of "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh, the Viet Cong are Gonna Win" were a regular thing at marches and rallies in NYC and on campuses.
It was an "interesting" time to grow up in.
There's nothing civil about this war.
Don't wait too long as it is a near immediate sequel and you want to keep what you just read fresh in your mind. You're also going to get a deeper dive into what made the first "beautiful, awful, terrible, excellent" to use your words.
If you didn't know already, the main characters are based on real people. In France, the colonel is considered a very thinly veiled representation of the real one: Marcel Bigeard
" La rose est sans pourquoi, elle fleurit parce qu’elle fleurit ; Elle n’a souci d’elle-même, ne demande pas si on la voit. » Angelus Silesius
"There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers." Paul Muad'dib
Thank you! I knew it was based on real characters but I had not explored that angle yet.
It looks like I'll have to purchase the Pretorians because I can't track it down at a local library.
Thanks.
Just picked up both free on Audible.
This reminds me of a passage in Bernard Fall's book "Hell in a Very Small Place" about the battle of Dien Bien Phu:
"The briefing held by Bigeard at 0200 was remarkable in many ways. He was a major commanding a battalion, who was "orchestrating" an operation involving five battalions, requiring air support that was to come from bases more than 200 miles away, and the firepower of more than two full artillery battalions commanded by a full colonel. Yet this was Bigeard and the place was Dien Bien Phu, and no one seemed to mind."
I'd highly recommend "Hell in a Very Small Place," I'll probably re-read it now myself that I located my copy to find this quote.
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