Janissaries
Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission -only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and...
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Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangerous mission -only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile territory, with local troops and their Cuban "advisors" rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780671877095 (0671877097)
Publish date: February 1st 1996
Publisher: Baen
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Janissaries (#1)
An illustrated book that hasn't appealed to me. But I like Pournelle and will give another try.
An illustrated book that hasn't appealed to me. But I like Pournelle and will give another try.
Read this years ago, I remember enjoying it pretty well. Basically, you have a bunch of mercenaries who have been sent on a suicide mission by the CIA. They get abducted by aliens, who tell them that since they're supposed to be dead anyway, no one will miss them. Then they're taken to another plane...
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