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Book 3 of 8: Carrera Series

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Sometimes paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness.

Carrera's won his war, and inflicted a horrific revenge upon his enemies. But there are wars after wars. The Tauran Union is planning an attack. The criminals of neighboring states are already attacking, and threatening to embroil him in a war with the planet's premier power. His only living son is under fire among the windswept mountains of Pashtia. An enemy fleet is hunting his submarines. His organization has been infiltrated by spies. One of the two governments of his adopted country, Balboa, is trying to destroy everything he's built and reinstitute rule by a corrupt oligarchy. Worst of all, perhaps, he, himself, bearing a crushing burden of guilt, isn't quite the man he once was.

Fortunately, the man he once was, was lucky enough to marry the right woman....

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June 21, 2016
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1522672079
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Tom Kratzman was born in Boston and enlist at 17 years old in the US Army. He served with the 101st Airborne division and in Panama with the 193rd Infantry Brigade. He then went on to Boson College on an Army scholarship. Following his graduation, Kratzman was commissioned as an officer in 1980 whereupon he spent three more years in Panama followed by a four-year stint with the 24th Infantry Division. He was then part of the United States Army Recruiting Command, before serving with the 5th Special Forces Group during the Gulf War.

Kratzman left the regular army in 1992, and went to law school. He earned his juris doctorate in 1995, but remained a member of the United States Army Reserve and also worked for MPRI. He was recalled to the Army in 2003 for the Iraq War but was found to have a heart problem. He then spent time at the U.S. Army War College as Director, Rule of Law, for the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute. Kratzman retired in 2006 as a Lieutenant Colonel and became a full-time author.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (June 21, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1522672079
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1522672074
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 0.63 x 5.5 inches

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Best one in the series

Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2020

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This third volume in a multi-book series has author Tom Kratman hitting his stride at a high level. This is a very good military sci-fi. It is also a brutal critique of current international and national social and political events.
I like the major characters in these stories. All books must have characters we can relate to or appreciate at some level, otherwise, we just don't care if they get shot or blown up or otherwise creamed by the bad guys. But the brave soldiers of the El Cid Legion are people we care about.
Kratman has an underwater fight with submarines that is as good as anything that I have ever read. Technically detailed and correct with high tension. Top nauch.
I particularly like his work play with weapon systems. He has an invented country that borders on another invented country. They can be identified by the reader as Panama and Columbia. He has a pilot flying a fighter named 'Illusion'. In the real Columbia, the airforce flies fighters called the Kifr. The Kifr is a made in Israel jet based on the french jet called the Mirage. Mirage----Illusion, cool no? A long way of showing how deep Kratman's expertise is and how layered his work is. It is just fun to read on that basis. In addition to everything else good about this book.
Plus he has an important side story based on a real cult of Alexander the Great that still lingers in the Afghanistan area of Waziristan. He knows a lot of obscure stuff and works it into his story.
I intend to finish the series. I can recommend this book to sci-fi fans, military fiction fans, and to those interested in contemporary social affairs at the highest levels. And lovers of good writing.

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and multi-national 'charities' that hate him because he chooses to look behind the curtain

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2016

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This is the 3rd book in the Carerra series. It tells how a soldier, after a decade of war, must now return home to work to save his country from crooked politicians, an enemy army invited in to protect them, outside governments that want him to fail, and multi-national 'charities' that hate him because he chooses to look behind the curtain. Tom Kratman is a very good story teller writing about the future of America, but set on an alien world. This series of books show the slide into impotence the nation is currently undergoing and gives the reader a figure to latch onto. A figure that wants to reverse the slide and show the reader one way this might be done.
This series is not for people who think big charities do good for anyone but themselves. It is not for anyone who thinks it's better our soldiers should die without shooting back because the enemy is using human shields. These books are not for people who believe the Laws of War mandate there may be no civilian casualties in a war zone.

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Everything by Kratman is a first class read

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2012

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I think of Kratman's Military Science Fiction and near-future military adventure novels as a chance to escape from a focus on politics. I continue to be amazed at his attention to detail and knowledge of the training and logistics that go into a successful military operation. But they really aren't. Woven through the well-constructed plots and gripping details are thoughts on the philosophy of war and governance that far exceed what you can get at today's university for intellectually stimulation. But readers so inclined can ignore them and concentrate on the story. In "The Lotus Eaters," Kratman starts most chapters from a book that, alas, I don't think exists, because I want to read it. It is "Historia Filosofia Moral" published in 466 on Terra Nova, the world Kratman has created to refight Earth's battles. Chapter 22 starts with this quote from this book: "Neither reason nor emotion can be taken in excess. Reason, in itself and standing alone, is a totally inadequate basis for maintaining a society. This is, indeed, the great flaw of the intellectual--far more so than his obsession with sex, his arrogance, and his selfishness--and why he is as much a danger to society as an asset and an ornament. Reason cannot tell the typical voter why he should not grant himself X largesse from the fisc when the penalty will not be paid until generation Y, a century down the road. That necessary restraint comes from an emotional commitment to future generations, and to the culture, values and traditions of the society of which the voter is a part. Indeed, once the practice of robbing the fisc is well established, reason must lead the voter to "get mine, before it's all gone.".... These excerpts are alone worth the price of the book, but do yourself a favor and start with the first volume of this series, "A Desert Called Peace." ~Bob

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The weary must still answer

Reviewed in the United States on September 15, 2013

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Carrera has waged war on those directly responsible for the murder of his family and he has extracted his revenge. Revenge however comes at a price and his conscience weights so heavily on him that Carrera retreats from active involvement with the legion. But his adopted home of Balboa has need of him and the enemy nation states that support the classed society of old Earth still have the United Nations Peace Fleet hovering overhead and pushing hostile nation states to take action against Balboa. Conflict is still coming and Balboa needs Carrera. - Some more interesting developments on the relationship between the individual and the state an on the application of technology to fight a war. The need for sacrifice and the suffering of loss. If you have not the previous two books in the series I would read A Desert Called Peace first as the background is an important piece of the work.

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Jeff N.B

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2012

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Tom Kratman's blood and guts saga of war on a look-alike Earth colonised, in proportion, by all the different nations on `old Earth' continues in this third episode, The Lotus Eaters.

Kratman again uses his skill and ability to captivate the reader as well as to titillate and shock in equal measure. The story is totally implausible and the plot has more holes in it than a Swiss Cheese but I find it as captivating as the previous two books in the series. You know the good guys will win but the knocks they take and the twists and turns on the way to that victory are the work of true expert.

Be warned that this is not a stand-alone book, you will get little out of it unless you have read the first two books in the series "A Desert Called Peace" and "Carnifex".

Neil

Tom tops himself!

Reviewed in Canada on June 18, 2016

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Superb! Another Kratman writ, c/w complexities most interesting!
Strongly recommend.

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