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Come and Take Them (Carerra Series Book 5) by [Tom Kratman]

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Book 5 of 8: Carrera Series

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The Carrera saga continues with entry number five, and the sequel to Amazon Legion. Carrera. Relentless. Machiavellian. Without compunction. Victorious. Pity his enemies. Be thankful he is on the side of freedom from totalitarian domination.

On the colony planet of Terra Nova, soldier turned political leader Carrera has achieved his revenge, destroying those who killed his wife and children in a terrorist strike, and helping to establish a free country. But Carrera’s fight is not over.

War with the Tauran Union is inevitable. Carrera has been preparing his new country for this all-out conflict for years, intending to drive out the last vestige of foreign imperialism in Balboa, the Tauran Union Security Force. He doesn't care that he's outnumbered one hundred to one. He doesn't care that the Taurans are one thousand times wealthier. A true Machiavellian, Carrera is convinced that gold cannot always find good soldiers, but that good soldiers can always find gold. After all, his good soldiers have already found quite a bit. Moreover, he's been preparing for the war he intends to start and fight on his own terms, while the TU has been preparing for a progressive fantasy.

But then his own government calls a halt even as the commander of the United Earth Peace Fleet, High Admiral Marguerite Wallenstein, injects a dose of realism and spine into the Tauran Union. Any other government, giving similar orders, Carrera would overthrow without hesitation. But this is his own creation; he must follow these orders.

But the Taurans are provoking Balboa mercilessly, and Carrera knows that sooner or later, he must fight—only now the task will be more difficult and more bloody. No matter. When that time comes, Carerra knows he will do whatever it takes to win. He is, after all, Carrera.

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About prequel, Amazon Legion:
“[I]nterplanetary warfare with. . .[a] visceral story of bravery and sacrifice. . .fans of the military SF of John Ringo and David Webershould enjoy this SF action adventure.”–Library Journal

About Tom Kratman’s Carrera series:
“Kratman's dystopia is a brisk page turner full of startling twists…[Kratman is] a professional military man…up to speed on military and geopolitical conceits.” –Best-selling author of America Alone Mark Steyn on Tom Kratman’s uncompromising military SF thriller, Califate

“Kratman raises disquieting questions on what it might take to win the war on terror…realistic action sequences, strong characterizations and thoughts on the philosophy of war.” –Publishers Weekly

Tom Kratman is a former infantry colonel who served in the U.S. Army for many years before becoming a lawyer in Virginia. He’s now a full-time writer.

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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. --This text refers to the mass_market edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00FY443IW
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Baen Books; 1st edition (October 14, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 14, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Nillspace

Wars forsaken glory to pay for freedom.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 25, 2022

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I hope that this doesn't have to happen for us to get rid of the progressive insanity that is now creeping its tentacles Into our own way of life. Great book and read with with huge tours of blood and death. A horror story of chilling dimensions. Can't wait for book 6.

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Hans

Panama vs the European Union

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2013

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Either you hate Tom Kratman or you love him. I sometimes find his ultra orthodox conservative views a Little bit hard to digest but he is a first rate writer of military fiction and action. This is the fourth book in the series about Carrera (I don't include Amazons which I didn't like) which take place on the planet of Terra Nova. This planet is a mirror of Earth with countries and Alliances thinly disguised under other names. In this novel Carrera and his adopted country of Balboa (Panama) takes on the Tauran Union (EU). The outcome should be given since the Taurans are superior both in manpower and equipment but Carrera has other plans. He has created a first class army in Balboa from the people there. Here comes what I find most interesting, can you build an army who has the training, morale and discipline it takes to beat any opponent from any population. In our world you normally find the best troops in North America, Northern Europé (OK, France too), Australia and New Zealand. It seems to a sort of culture thing. Many of the armies of Africa and South America are considered jokes and bad ones at that. So what makes the Balboans able to stand up against an opponent who should be much stronger looking at the criterias presented and with the support of the United Earth Peace Fleet. Well, you have to read this novel and the first ones if you haven't already to have the answer on that. I'M looking forward to the next Carrera novel.

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Tim

Great series, Bad narrator.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2021

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The guy telling the story goes from normal voice to quiet whisper every single time there is an inner dialogue. I drive a truck so books on tape are kind of important to me. I will find the time to just read the rest of the series. I give 2 stars for the narration due to the constant need to crank the volume just to hear the story.

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DavisEarly1234

Too much coverage of training for the same time frame, and hint of cartoon characters

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 2, 2013

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Series book, you need to read several of the prior books first for the setting to make sense.

The idea is that there is a colony world of Old Earth (OE), that is Terra Nova (TN). The UN rules the OE as a noble class, mouthing liberal values but in real life making the ruling Russian Empire class look like nice guys. They have regressed to just barely interstellar travel and nukes.

The TN is just like late 2001-2007 Earth, in terms of tech and the TN nations standing in for current nations.

Kratman uses the setting to have a former US colonel raising a merc force which then turns into a force to free Panama. The TN French and the OE UN don't like that. This book is the lead up to the war.

Lots of prep details and training views. The problem is that the last two books have also been mostly prep and training. In fact, the last book was the same time frame as this one and was 8/10s training, from a more narrow viewpoint. The one before that was 90% run up to a very short internal action.

This would have been four stars, but this is all the training details, for the exact same time frame, that I care to read.

Kratman has thought of a lot of great stuff, but mil sci-fi needs action, and all the training and equipment purchase details isn't the same. Repeating the same time span in different books would be good if there was more action, but there isn't.

There is also a TN English officer working with the French who is a cartoon character. This isn't Agents of Shield, and the character was jarring.

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Joel E. Hamby

Great epic military tale

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 16, 2016

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LTC (Ret) Tom Kratman wrote a great book here in his Carerra 'verse, positing another planet settled by Earth 450 years ago and devolving into 21st century type conflicts while overwatched by the UN Peace Fleet high overhead. Strong elements of Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers and Larteguy's fiction (of Indochina and Algeria) runs through this conflict about the fledgling nation of Balboa (which is strikingly similar to Panama) and the threatening power of their quasi-military Legion. Threaten by the Tauran Union they face invasion and this is that story-- while the Amazon Legion and this shares some story lines it is an epic tale told from a military view that I share. That is an Army in which I should like to be a part... The good guys, in the authors telling, do not always win, but they are very willing to fight for what they believe in. Problem is, there are others who will fight as well.

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Ned Brickley

Red Shirted at last!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 2, 2013

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As usual, Tom Kratman does it again with his latest plan to cause Tranzi's skulls to POP. Col. Kratman, (Ret.), ties two previous novels in the series, (Lotus Eaters and Amazon Legion), into Come and Take Them and charges full steam ahead.
Now I must state for the record that I am "Red Shirted" in this novel so I am biased...just a teensy bit. :)
(To be Red Shirted is to be killed, generally in a very bad way in a Baen novel)
I won't go into the details of the book since I don't want to spoil it for you. I will strongly recommend that you buy this book. In fact, buy multiple copies and give them to your most politically progressive friends. It will either change their minds or detonate their brains. Just be sure you aren't around if the latter occurs. You don't want to have to clean the spatter out of your clothes.
The next book in the series is in the works and I am waiting impatiently for it's arrival. If I could give this 10 stars, I would.

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Danny

The duke

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 26, 2013

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Another in the excellent duke carrera series, this time the title refers to a famous spartan rejoinder to a certain impertinent persian request for the spartan arms, leonidas said "come and take them" in reply in this book its all about the tauran unions invasion of balboa and carrerra's plans and the implementation of the resistance, a ripping yarn :)

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Rod Easter

Highly entertaining. Could not put it down!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 14, 2015

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Highly entertaining. Could not put it down!!

peter foxton

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 21, 2014

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Excellent

Jonathan M. Balmer

Getting a bit to far right to be enjoyable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 9, 2014

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The writer is unable to describe any female character with out mentioning what a great rack they have,such teenage wish fulfilment is getting in the way of the book enough to put me off the series.
Shame because I was really enjoying the writers work despite his constant right wing rants

CYMRO

Fight for the Right.!!!!!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 25, 2013

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A good return to a bigger world view,and a good appetizers for the finishing confrontations between Balboa and Carrera and the rest of Terra Nova,and the Peace Fleet.!!!

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