Colonel Hammer Has Only A Mixed Bag Of Recruits And Battle Fatigued Veterans To Relieve A District Capital That Has To Be Rescued Rolling Hot Is Sure To Follow The Success Of David Drake S Hammer S Slammers Nearly A Million In Print And The Bestselling Tie In Adventure Game.
David Drake is an American author of science fiction and fantasy literature A Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a lawyer, he is now one of the major authors of the military science fiction genre.
- Paperback
- 280 pages
- Rolling Hot
- David Drake
- English
- 20 October 2018 David Drake
- 0671720562
Like The Butcher s Bill and, honestly, all the Slammers series , Rolling Hot shows the heavy price of war This time though, it s not on combat hardened vets, or tired sergeants or new recruits it s on the broken folks who can t be on the frontlines right now or maybe ever again.All the Slammers books are bitter about war, but Rolling Hot is sick with anger over it Even as our in to the ...
In this Hammer s Slammers story Mercenaries are in a base camp, just out of battle Yet, these maintenance staff personnel, soldiers in for RR who really need it and the dregs of the unit are called upon for an important almost suicidal missio...
Other than the fact that an interstellar civilization that has recon drones and satellites, but no air combat capabilities, this is a fun story The combat seems realistic although vastly skewed in terms ...
David Drake knocks it out of the park with Rolling Hot, easily his best Hammer s Slammers novel The story is loosely based on the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, and told from the viewpoints of four main characters, each with a very di...
One of my favorite Hammers s Slammers books, lots of action, a bunch of great well drawn characters Written during the tank phase of military scife it remains one of the definitive works of the genre.
This is my favorite of the Hammer s Slammers novels It s dark as dark can be For me, it works well at capturing the mess that s war The characters are interesting and kept my attention from beginning to end.
Not as good as the original Hammer s Slammers short stories but pretty entertaining reading.
Loved it
Probably the best military SiFi series written Drake is a superb writer of future military SiFi Very recommended