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Stefan Rudnicki
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By:
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David Drake
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Gangs ruled Cantilucca. Guns were the only law, and there was no lack of guns. It was hard to imagine matters getting worse. Until the survey team arrived.... Major Matthew Coke was not a squeamish man, but the state of affairs on Cantilucca turned his stomach. He was only human after all. Where some of the rest of his team were concerned, it was difficult to be sure: five professional mercenaries who'd learned the hard way that in the end they could defeat anything - except their own consciences.
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Sheriff Hayden Duke was born on the Pilgrim, and he expects to die on the Pilgrim, like his father, and his father before him. That's the way things are on a generation starship centuries from home. He's never questioned it. Never thought about it. And why bother? Access points to the ship's controls are sealed, the systems that guide her automated and out of reach. It isn't perfect, but he has all he needs to be content. Until a malfunction forces his engineer wife to the edge of the habitable zone to inspect the damage.
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Surprised
- By Tm on 07-28-18
By: M.R. Forbes
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The Med
- Dan Lenson Series, Book 1
- By: David Poyer
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
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Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61 - carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines - steams toward Syria with deadly intent. Their mission: rescue 100 hostages from a terrorist stronghold - alive. With realism seldom seen in military fiction, The Med is a magnificent and timely epic that brings the human drama of armed conflict compellingly to life.
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Vulgar and boring
- By Caspar Blattmann on 01-24-20
By: David Poyer
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Weapons of Choice
- Axis of Time, Book 1
- By: John Birmingham
- Narrated by: Jay Snyder
- Length: 20 hrs and 21 mins
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History is rewritten in an instant as the future smashes into the past, and high-tech hardware goes head to head with World War Two technology. In the chaos that ensues, thousands are killed, but the maelstrom has only just begun. The veterans of Pearl Harbor have never seen a helicopter, or a cruise missile - let alone nanotechnology, ceramic bullets, and F22 Raptor stealth jetfighters. Allied and Axis forces are then caught in a desperate struggle to gain the upper hand.
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The story line is a political stretch
- By Bruce on 04-18-15
By: John Birmingham
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Genesis: Arisen, Book 0.5
- By: Michael Stephen Fuchs
- Narrated by: R.C. Bray
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
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Tucked away in a high-tech Tactical Operations Center, inside an isolated safehouse in the Horn of Africa, sits Agency analyst Zack Altringham. He is Kenyan-born, Princeton-educated, badly burnt-out - and condemned by his language and cultural skills to a lifetime of fighting America's shadow counter-terror wars.
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Maybe better to read this after books 1-3?
- By Tilo on 04-18-15
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Terminator 3
- Rise of the Machines
- By: David Hagberg
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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In the third installment of the film that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name, John Connor is older and is still a target for killer machines from the future. The human resistance sends back the Terminator who saved his life when he was just a boy to protect him from an even more lethal Terminator model: the Terminatrix - in the shape of a woman and capable of making all previous Terminators seem slow and stupid. If Connor doesn't survive, the future is lost...
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All of what a movie can not offer
- By J. Locke on 08-10-03
By: David Hagberg
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Control Point
- Shadow Ops
- By: Myke Cole
- Narrated by: Corey Jackson
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
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Myke Cole is an expert at ratcheting up suspense and delivering pulse-pounding adventure that leaves audiences breathless. In Shadow Ops: Control Point, the world has seemingly gone mad. People are waking up with magical powers, such as the ability to raise the dead or call forth storms. The only thing staving off a plunge into chaos is the Supernatural Operations Corps, headed by Oscar Britton. But when Oscar exhibits a power of his own, the hunter becomes the hunted.
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get on with it
- By Eugene on 05-15-12
By: Myke Cole
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Earth Unknown
- Forgotten Earth, Book 1
- By: M.R. Forbes
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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Two hundred years ago, a fleet of colony ships left Earth and started a settlement on Proxima Centauri. Centurion Space Force pilot Nathan Stacker didn't expect to return home to find his wife dead. He didn't expect the murderer to look just like him, and he definitely didn't expect to be the one to take the blame. But his wife had control of a powerful secret. A secret that stretches across the light years between two worlds and could lead to the end of both. Now that secret is in Nathan's hands, and he's about to make the most desperate evasive maneuver of his life.
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Half a story.
- By RBD 2 on 03-29-21
By: M.R. Forbes
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Omega Days
- Omega Days, Book 1
- By: John L. Campbell
- Narrated by: Richard Ferrone
- Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
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Eight million walking dead stalk the San Francisco Bay Area, with more on the way. Scattered refugees - a priest with a bloody past, a college girl turned sniper, escaped San Quentin inmates and others - will quickly learn the three most important rules of survival: Make your bullets count. Don't fall behind. Don't...get...bitten! Fast-paced and packed with zombie action, Book One of the Omega Days series lights off the apocalypse with a scream, and tears California to pieces!
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Disappointed
- By L on 06-19-14
By: John L. Campbell
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Master Sergeant
- Makaum War Series #1
- By: Mel Odom
- Narrated by: Todd McLaren
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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They call it The Green Hell. A maze of tangled jungle, the planet Makaum is one of the most dangerous places in the universe. And for Terran Military Master Sergeant Frank Sage, it is now home.The war between the Terrans and the Phrenorians rages, and both sides have their sights set on Makaum. If the planet's rich resources fall into enemy hands, it could mean devastation for the Terran army.
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Fun Romp
- By Bob H. on 04-13-16
By: Mel Odom
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Extinction Red Line
- The Extinction Cycle
- By: Tom Abrahams, Nicholas Sansbury Smith
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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For a dozen years, villagers along the ancient Da River in Vietnam have feared a nightmarish creature who hunts and consumes human flesh. Only in whispers do they mention its name, The White Ghost. To the United States military, this creature has a different name - Marine Lieutenant Trevor Brett, the chemically engineered experiment gone wrong that they will do anything to hide. Sole survivor of his platoon, Brett has stalked the jungle for prey. But the men who made him into a monster are searching for him, and when they find him, the line between hunter and hunted will be blurred.
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Perfect Beginning!
- By Natalie @ ABookLoversLife on 01-14-19
By: Tom Abrahams, and others
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Invasion
- Book One of the Secret World Chronicle
- By: Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey, Cody Martin, and others
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
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The world had become used to the metahumans - people sometimes perfectly ordinary, but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance - who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers, fighting crime, and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals. Then that comfortable world ended in just one terrifying day.
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It's ...okay.
- By C Yohe on 10-16-12
By: Mercedes Lackey, and others
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- Michael
- 03-12-23
Replete with incoherence
OK but definitely not his best work. Definitely missing connective tissue BUT I will definitely read more of his work
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- VNO
- 09-01-23
slammer
listened to this one fairly quickly. what seems like an off the beaten path opening, moving quickly from back story to backstory, turns into a magnificent 7 style story of bad asses with hearts of gold. very fun and compelling addition to the slammers repertoire.
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- G. Parish
- 03-08-21
The Sales Pitch
I recently listened to The Sharp End written by David Drake and read by Stefan Rudnicki.
This is the third book in the Hammers Slammers series. It could be argued that this book is not directly about the Hammers Slammers, but rather that they are about the Friesan Defense Force. This gets into a lot of backstory for the series that isn't really germane. This story, like all of the Hammers Slammers stories, can be read as self contained story that needs no outside references.
The story focuses on a particular scout team trying to drum up work for the mercenary unit. They go to a planet known to have multiple factions warring over it and assess the various factions as possible customers for a mercenary company.
This, of course, is not done in a vacuum. The factions on the planet are wholly aware that mercenaries joining their enemies could doom them. These factions not only vie for their services, but also put the pressure on each other before an outside force can be brought in.
Stefan Rudnicki has fairly crisp and clear diction, however, his reading is just a tad too monotone for my personal tastes. He wasn't a horrible narrator, but I felt he could have brought more to reading.
Overall this was another excellent entry in the Hammers Slammers series. Despite the narration, I still think this book makes an excellent listen for any in search of good military sci-fi.
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- Linda
- 12-04-20
Good Story
This was one of the first David Drake stories I read. It was fun to listen to it performed.
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- Fred Jackson
- 02-16-21
David Drake is the best!!
Hammer's Slammers stories are all outstanding, so is everything else Drake puts out!
I hope he keeps going! 🤗🥳
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- Andy
- 10-05-23
Excellent
I don’t understand why the Slammers are not more popular. Excellent story, excellent writing, excellent audio book.
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- Ray Ward
- 09-09-21
Enjoy The Slammer's anyway you can!
Hammer's Slammer's are the baddest mercenary Army in the Galaxy just ask anyone on the sharp end !
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-17-22
My favorite tale of the Slammer-verse.
Aside from the original this is my favorite Slammers tale. I've read every installation and this one always left me wanting more from this particular Survey Team. A solid performance and story that you can come back to more than once and find just as enjoyable.
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- Michael G Kurilla
- 11-07-22
Playing organized crime against one another
David Drake's The Sharp End is another installment in his Hammer's Slammers series. The Slammers are a futuristic mercenary organization that operates across worlds. In this offering, an advance unit is sent to a planet that supplies the rest of the settled worlds with a unique recreational drug. There are two dominate crime organizations that run everything. The Slammer unit goes in ostensibly to contract with one to take out the other. What transpires is a gradual attrition through subterfuge where each event is blamed on the other until an all-out effort leads to the destruction of both organizations.
Although there are some traditional sci-fi battle engagements, most of Drake's focus is a bit more subtle with some creative espionage and sophisticated digital intelligence and offensive capabilities. This is basically, 'how to start a war 101.'
The narration is excellent with superb character distinction. Pacing is smooth and well aligned with the ebb and flow of the action.
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- Robin
- 09-27-22
Great military Science Fiction
The story is excellent...the Characters are exactly who and what they need to be...and the narration is superb. Enjoy!
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