The Tejano Conflict

Informationen zum Autor Steve Perry wrote for the television show Batman: The Animated Series and was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing. His novelization of Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire spent ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. He is a recipient of the Willamette Writers Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of the Cutter's Wars series ( The Ramal Extraction , The Vastalimi Gambit ), The Man Who Never Missed , Matadora , The Machiavelli Interface , and The Musashi Flex . Klappentext At the end of the twenty-fourth century! war is fought in a civilized manner: Each side hires mercenaries to engage in combat in specifically designated areas. To the victor go the spoils—whatever they may be... After a couple of assignments involving more intrigue and skulduggery than the Cutter Force Initiative ever wanted! the unit is looking forward to being part of a straight-up! short-term industrial war on Earth. Cutter agrees to a support role offered by an old Army comrade who's now a general in a larger military force. The pay is good! the unit happy. All they have to do is basic ranger stuff: sneak and peek! shoot and scoot. But what starts out as a corporate fight to occupy a valuable piece of contested territory quickly goes sideways! and once again Cutter and crew find themselves in the middle of situations in which things aren't as they seem! and the unit must determine the truth—or lose more than just a battle. Leseprobe COLONEL R. A. “RAGS” CUTTER: A career military man, Cutter left the GU Army when he ran afoul of Army politics. At large, Cutter realized that there was a need for his kind of expertise and created a fighting force for specialized, smaller-scale actions. JO SIMS: A former PsyOps lieutenant in the GU Navy, Sims is drop-dead gorgeous and as adept with small arms as she is with her mind. TOMAS “DOC” WINK: An ER doctor before he joined the Cutters, Wink is an adrenaline junkie who doesn’t feel alive unless he is on the razor’s edge defying death. ROY “GRAMPS” DEMONDE: Previously the PR director for a major corporation, Gramps lost his family in the revolution and is always looking for a way to stick it to the GU. FORMENTARA: A mahu and cybernetics whiz, Formentara is adept at installing and maintaining all kinds of bioengineered implants. MEGAN “GUNNY” SAYEED: Gunny is a master weaponsmith and expert shooter. If it throws any kind of missile or a particle beam, Gunny can use it, upside down and over her shoulder. KLUTHFEM “KAY”: Kay is a Vastalimi who can kill using only her bare hands, feet, or fangs. The Cutter’s Wars Series The Matador Series ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PROLOGUE Hotel Orleans—New York Metroplex Cutter arrived at the door, which swung open as he got to it. He stepped inside. It was a first-class meeting room, part of a suite, expensive and plush. Good signs. Meant the clients who hired Zoree Wood’s military unit, The Line, had money and didn’t mind spending it. Be interesting to see how much of it would come CFI’s way . . . Other than the woman who met him at the door and himself, it seemed they were alone. “Hey. How has the galaxy been treating you, Rags?” “Can’t complain,” he said. “Yourself?” Wood smiled. “Come on in, have a seat. I cashiered out a colonel, and now I’m a general. Pay is way better, and I get to call more shots than I did in the GU Army, no uplevels second-guessing over my shoulder. What’s not to like? “Have a glass of this?” She held up a bottle of very good bourbon. He grinned at that. “Know my weakness, do you?” “Word gets around.” He sat on the couch, as comfortable as it looked, and it looked comfortable. He returned her smile. She was still fit, still handsome. Not i...

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• Autori: Steve Perry
• Editore: Ace Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.12.2014
• EAN: 9780425273494
• ISBN: 978-0-425-27349-4
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 105 mm x 171 mm x 21 mm
• Serie: Cutter's Wars; Cutter's Wars
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi