Mamelukes
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NO REST FOR THE WEARY
Rick Galloway's still not sure what inspired him to volunteer to fight Cubans in Angola, and he certainly never expected to end his African adventure shanghaied by a flying saucer when his CIA superiors cut him and his men adrift as the Cubans overran their final position.
He didn't expect to end up on the planet Tran, God only knew how many light-years from Earth, raising drugs for an alien cartel under the auspicesโmore or lessโof a galactic civilization administered and run by a slave class of humans for their alien masters, either.
But he did. And since then, he's survived mutinies, civil wars, battles against Byzantine Romans, medieval knights, and Mongol raiders on a world where catastrophic climate change races unchecked through a 600-year cycle. Along the way he's found love, lost it, found it again, and become a great nobleย .ย .ย .ย all the while knowing his alien employers will probably nuke his people back into the Stone Age when they're done.
He's managed his impossible balancing act for 13 years. He's lost people he cared about, been forced to do things he's hated, and tried along the way to make life better for the people trapped on Tran with him, and he's tired. So tired.
But now, everything has changedย .ย .ย .ย again. New Starmen have arrived on Tran, with dangerous gifts and star weapons of their own. Everything Rick Gallowayย thoughtย he knew about his mission on Tran is about to be turned on its head.
And everyone expectsย himย to fix it.
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About Jerry Pournelle:
โPossibly the greatest science fiction novel I have ever read.โโRobert A. Heinlein onย The Mote in God's Eyeย by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
โJerry Pournelle is one of science fiction's greatest storytellers.โโPoul Anderson
โJerry Pournelle's trademark is first-rate action against well-realized backgrounds of hard science and hardball politics.โโDavid Drake
โRousing. . . . The best of the genre.โโThe New York Times
โOn the cover . . . is the claim 'No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.' And well it might be.โโMilwaukee Journalย onย Janissaries
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Jerry Pournelleย was a master of military science fiction, author of the series of novels about John Christian Falkenberg and his legion of interstellar mercenaries, and many other works, such asย Janissaries, Exiles to Glory, High Justice, King David's Spaceship, Starswarm, and others. With Larry Niven he collaborated on a string of bestselling novels, includingย Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall, and many more. He held advanced degrees in psychology, statistics, engineering, and political science, and has was actively involved professionally in all these fields.
