Lord of Janissaries, 1 - (Baen) by Jerry Pournelle & Roland J Green (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"3 novels in one. Janissaries, Clan and Crown, and Storms of Victory. 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. They were cut off in hostile territory. Then the alien spaceship landed. Now, Captain Rick Galloway, formerly of the US Army, was now Lord Rick on the planet Tran inhabited by humans transplanted in the past from medieval Europe, Imperial Rome and other now-vanished nations. So when a natural disaster threatens to destroy the planet, Galloway must conquer the warring nations of Tran to prevent extinction"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Three best-selling Jerry Pournelle masterpieces in one volume for the first time: <i>Janissaries </i>and <i>Tran. </i>A modern soldier is transported by aliens to a world filled with warriors through the ages including medieval knights, Roman soldiers. His task: survival.</b> <p/><i>Janissaries<br></i>Some days it just didn't pay to be a soldier. Captain Rick Galloway and his men had been talked into volunteering for a dangeorus mission--only to be ruthlessly abandoned when faceless CIA higher-ups pulled the plug on the operation. They were cut off in hostile teritory, with local troops and their Cuban advisors rapidly closing in. And then the alien spaceship landed... <p/><i>Clan and Crown</i> and <i>Storms of Victory</i><br>He didn't want to conquer the world. He <i>had </i>to. Captain Rick Galloway, formerly of the US Army, more recently a mercenary commander, was now Lord Rick on the planet Tran. Rescued by an alien spaceship from certain death when a mercenary assignment went sour, he and his men were dropped on a world distant from Earth, but inhabited by humans transplanted in the past from medieval Europe, from Imperial Rome, and from other now-vanished nations. <p/>Now the time of the Demon Star approaches, whose close approach and fierce heat will render much of Tran uninhabitable. To survive this fiery apocalypse, the warring nations of Tran must be united. Lord Rick doesn't <i>want</i> to conquer the world, but the alternative is certain extinction! <p/><b>About <i>Janissaries</i>: </b><br>On the cover... is the clain 'No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.' And well it might be. - Milwaukee <i>Journal</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Jerry Pournelle is a reigning 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 as<i> Janissaries, Exiles to Glory, High Justice, King David's Spaceship, Starswarm</i>, and others. With Larry Niven he has collaborated on a string of bestselling novels, including <i>Lucifer's Hammer, The Mote in God's Eye, Footfall</i>, and many more. He holds advanced degrees in psychology, statistics, engineering, and political science, and has been involved professionally in all these fields. He and his wife live in Los Angeles. <p/>Roland J. Green has worked as a full-time writer and reviewer since he sold his first novel, <i>Wandor's Ride</i>, in 1973. Green's most prominent works are his military action adventures of the future, including the <i>Starcruiser Shenandoah</i> series, the <i>Peace Company</i> series, and <i>Voyage to Eneh</i> (2003). He is the coauthor of <i>Tran </i>with Jerry Pournelle.
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