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Most well known for his, excellent, Patricio Carrera series, and Caliphate, Tom Kratman's sleeper hits, as it were, are his Countdown series. This second volume of a yet to be determined how long series, has to rank as his finest work. To those who don't know, he was a short bird Colonel in the US A......more

I abandoned this one at about 100 pages in. If you like the excruciating minutia of a (fictitious) mercenary battalion's table of organization, their weapon loadout, pay scale for various ranks (down to the percentage adjustments for native vs non-native troops), and detailed descriptions of armored......more

Kratman makes you sympathize and understand the reasons of the enemy, making it all the harder to see them killed off. War at its Best, War at its Worst, all boils down to Manpower and Money, and the willingness to spend both when needs must. All in All , The Liberators was a better read.......more

Very enjoyable.......more

I have a difficult time rating this one impartially. I'm well-acquainted with the author, I read snippets of it on the Baen's Bar site, and Tom did me the credit of almost killing me off as a minor character. His work fuels my inner demons and makes me miss active soldiering like no one else. I foun......more