Carnifex

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Revenge: it wont bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares.
Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. Hes raised an army and air force and used them. Hes raised a fleet and hes about to use that. Hes suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. Hes tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way.
Now hes deployed his legions to Pashtia, penultimate hideout of the Salafi Ikhwan who have made him what he has become. But with each step further from his home, revenge seems no closer. And with each step he leaves behind him a little of his dwindling humanity.
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Yet the trail itself grows cold, as cold as the snow-capped, windswept mountains of Pashtia. Only Carreras hate still burns hot, and thats a fire that is slowly consuming him.

Author Bio

In 1974, at age seventeen,Tom Kratmanbecame a political refugee and defector from the PRM (Peoples Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch. Back in the Army, he managed to do just about everything there was to doat one time or another. After the Gulf War, with the bottom dropping completely out of the anti-communist market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. Every now and again, when the frustrations of legal life and having to deal withotherlawyers got to be too much, Tom would rejoin the Army (or a somewhat similar group, say) for fun and frolic in other climes. His family, muttering darkly, put up with this foryears. He no longer practices law, instead writing full-time for Baen. His novels for Baen includeA State of Disobedience, Caliphate, and the series consisting ofA Desert Called Peace, Carnifex, The Lotus Eaters, The Amazon Legion, Come and Take Them,The Rods and the Axe, andA Pillar of Fire by Night. With John Ringo, he has written the novels Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes, andThe Tuloriad.Also for Baen, he has written the first three volumes of the modern-day military fiction series Countdown.