They were the toughest fighters in the galaxy- until they got used up.
The mission: redemption-or death,
The troops were walking dead already,
so there wasn't much of a downside.
Major
Arthur Farrell and the troops of Strike Force Company C41 had seen too
much war with the alien Kalendru. They had too many screaming memories
to be fit for combat again, but they were far too dangerous to
themselves and others to be returned to civilian life.
The
bureaucracy that administered human affairs arranged a final mission
with the same ruthless efficiency as it conducted the war against the
Kalendru. C41 would guard a colony being sent to a hell planet. If the
troops succeeded, they might be ready to return to human society.
When
the mission went horribly wrong, Art Farrell and his troops found their
lives on the line as never before, protecting civilians to whom
bureaucratic injustice was a new experience. And there was one more
thing...
A story of soldiers and civilians, of hope and, possibly, redemption.
THE SAGA OF THE SLAMMERS BEGINS!
COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER: He welded
five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any
other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces
unfriendly natives, guerrilla insurgents, or ruthless terrorists, they
do the only thing that might save them— they hire Hammer's Slammers, the
toughest, meanest bunch of mercs who ever wrecked a world for pay.
Known throughout the galaxy for their cold, ruthless ferocity, the men
of Colonel Hammer's indomitable armored brigade routinely accept
impossible missions. Again and again, they go up against overwhelming
forces, or fight a two-front war against ferocious opposition, all
without atomizing their civilian employers. Can they keep doing it Not
if they abide by the rules of civilized warfare...but nobody ever said
the Hammers were nice. Even when their chances are not good—those who
oppose them have no chance at all!
Publisher's Note: THE TANK
LORDS contains two full volume's worth of the Hammer's Slammer's saga,
for the first time presented in chronological story sequence as
determined by the author.
