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Some days it just doesn’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.

Rescued from certain death, they now must fight another world’s war.

©1979 Jerry Pournelle (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Fantasy Fiction Military Science Fiction Military Fiction
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This book as good today as when I first read it in ' 84. The narrator is one of the best, if not the best, working for Audible.

Great Narrator

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Highly recommended for both the plot & the narration. Sci-fi & historical plot elements & well-known rounded characters.

Great!

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Brilliant sci-fi classic, some thought provoking concepts skillfully woven into an intresting and exciting plot.

Great concepts, epic story.

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It’s not often you come across a book that both surprises the reader and draws you in. Well worth listening to and no follow up books.

A surprisingly enjoyable read

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Great story, expertly narrated, 70's sci-fi at its best.
wonderful scene setting that brought the characters and places clearly into my imagination,
yes you have to cringe at the historical mysogeny but there is only a few bits and I've read a lot worse.

if anything I think Jerry Pounelle was trying to lift female characters out of that plot staple of being the cause of all problems ( in his own 1978 way)

of its time

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