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Janissaries (Paperback)

by Jerry Pournelle (Author)
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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Ace Books (July 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0441382908
  • ISBN-13: 978-0441382903
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

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5.0 out of 5 stars one of my all time favorites, 17 Aug 2006
By Kurt Decoene "Tybo" (Gent - Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Janissaries (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a series (Janissaries is just the first book of a series of 3) that is hard to find. I bought it just because I liked J. Pournelle's work and it was a good move.

Captain Rick Galloway finds himself in a bit of a pickle when his (CIA) support in Western Africa falls through and he and his men are left to their own devices. Certain death (torture etc. etc.) at the hand of Cuban mercenaries seems unavoidable until an UFO appears (bear with me).

Between a hard place and a rock... Galloway orders his men aboard the UFO. They are sent to a remote planet - their mission is to carve out an empire and grow a crop of alien narcotics before the UFO returns... (if not the planet will become the target of orbital bombardment by the aliens)

The planet quickly turns out to be quite a challenge as people from different cultures, time-periods and ethnic backgrounds have been dropped there during earlier 'drugruns' by the aliens . Scottisch highlanders, Imperial Romans etc.

Galloway's knowledge of 'the art of war' (modern, classic and medieval warfare) and basic military technology prove essential to their survival...

A very original spin on the space-marine concept...

P.S. Janissaries were slave-soldiers of the Ottoman empire -
they became all powerfull although they were 'mere' slaves.


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