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![Come and Take Them (Carerra Series Book 5) by [Tom Kratman]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51XljF-KAHL._SY346_.jpg)
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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.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateOctober 14, 2013
- File size6901 KB
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- ASIN : B00FY443IW
- Publisher : Baen Books; 1st edition (October 14, 2013)
- Publication date : October 14, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 6901 KB
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- Print length : 658 pages
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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.
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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Shame because I was really enjoying the writers work despite his constant right wing rants
