Janissaries

Name: Janissaries
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Jerry Pournelle
ISBN: 9781470836320

Author: Jerry Pournelle

Narrator: Keith Szarabajka

Unabridged: 5 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 10/30/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Some days it just doesnt 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 inand then the alien spaceship landed. Rescued from certain death, they now must fight another worlds war.

About Jerry Pournelle

Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017) was an American science fiction writer, essayist, and journalist who contributed for many years to the computer magazine Byte. He wrote the popular Janissaries and CoDominium series and was the coauthor of several bestselling science fiction novels, including Lucifer’s Hammer, The Mote in God’s Eye, and the New York Times bestseller Footfall. He had advanced degrees in engineering, political science, statistics, and psychology and, in addition to his career as a fiction writer, had for many years written columns on both politics and technology.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glen on June 15, 2023

This illustrated novel attempts to be a Burrough's type Mars series, updated for the seventies. Unfortunately, it succeeds. Rick Galloway, leading a bunch of mercs in a backwater war in Africa is surrounded by Marxist troops, and their Cuban "advisors" when they are picked up by a flying saucer and......more

Goodreads review by Charles on June 04, 2020

Mercenaries for aliens Captain Rick Galloway, serving as a mercenary in Africa under the auspices of the CIA, finds himself and his few surviving men abandoned by the CIA just as about a thousand Cubans are closing in. It looks like the end. Surrender is not an option but boarding a flying saucer is.......more

Goodreads review by Mike (the Paladin) on March 09, 2014

I am a bit royally ticked about this book. See I like it. I've liked other books by the writers they have turned out some great science fiction (and science fantasy). Much of it with plenty of action, a lot of it with thought provoking ideas. The book's great. I sort of stumbled over it after seeing......more

Goodreads review by Dirk on January 04, 2019

Well, this is quite far removed from the stuff Pournelle did with Larry Niven. I've enjoyed the books of the latter, as well as the collaborations between the two authors, so it was only a matter of time before getting around to one of Pournelle's solo outings. Janissaries appears to be quite popula......more

Goodreads review by Charles on August 01, 2009

Probably my favorite book by Pournelle. And my copy is nicely illustrated. A really good book.......more