Come and Take Them: Volume 5

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#5 in the popular Carerra military science fiction series that started with A Desert Called Peace. Miltary leader Carerra faces down a threat from totalitarians and wins the freedom of his country on a frontier planet.

Carerra. Relentless. Machiavellian. Without compunction. Victorious. Pity his enemies. Be thankful he is on the side of freedom from totalitarian domination.

On the colony planet of Terra Nova, soldier turned political leader Carerra has achieved his revenge, destroying those who killed his wife and children in a terrorist strike, and helping to establish a free country. But Carreras fight is not over.

War with the Tauran Union is inevitable. Carerra has been preparing his new country for this all-out conflict for years, intending to drive out the last vestige of foreign imperialism in Balboa, the Tauran Union Security Force. He doesn't care that he's outnumbered one hundred to one. He doesn't care that the Taurans are one thousand times wealthier. A true Machiavellian, Carrera is convinced that gold cannot always find good soldiers, but that good soldiers can always find gold. After all, his good soldiers have already found quite a bit. Moreover, he's been preparing for the war he intends to start and fight on his own terms, while the TU has been preparing for a progressive fantasy.

About Tom Kratmans Carrera series:
[I]nterplanetary warfare with. . .[a] visceral story of bravery and sacrifice . . . fans of the military SF of John Ringo and David Weber should enjoy this SF action adventure.Library Journal

Kratman's dystopia is a brisk page turner full of startling twists [Kratman is] a professional military man up to speed on military and geopolitical conceits. best-selling author of America Alone Mark Steyn on Tom Kratmans uncompromising military SF thriller, Califate

Kratman raises disquieting questions on what it might take to win the war on terrorrealistic action sequences, strong characterizations and thoughts on the philosophy of war. Publishers Weekly

Carerra Series:
A Desert Called Peace
Carnifex
The Lotus Eaters
The Amazon Legion
Come and Take Them
Rods and the Axe

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.