A Desert Called Peace
Carrera, Book 1
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Narrado por:
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James Fouhey
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Tom Kratman
He raised an army against those who took everything from him.
They should have picked their enemies more carefully. Five centuries from now, on a remarkably Earthlike planet that is mankind's sole colony in space, religious fanatics called the "Salafi Ikhwan" have murdered the uncle of former colonel Patrick Hennessey. That was their first mistake, because uncle was rich and Hennessey was rather a good colonel. But they also murdered Hennessey's wife, Linda, and their three small children, and that was their worst mistake for she was the only restraint Hennessey had ever accepted. From the pile of rubble and the pillar of fire that mark the last resting place of Linda Hennessey and her children arises a new warrior - Carrera, scourge of the Salafis. He will forge an army of ruthless fanatics from the decrepit remains of failed state's military. He will wage war across half a world. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them, and those who support them, utterly, completely, without restraint or remorse. Only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera's enemies.
©2007 Tom Kratman (P)2014 Audible Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
great story
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the story of a fight against the enemies of freedom on another world.
heartily reccomended
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The author does skip around a bit and some parts of the story just sort of end but overall it's a good book and it's nice and long instead of splitting it into smaller books just to earn a few more bucks is nice.
Takes a while to get into it but quite good.
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Earth 2
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Great Book
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very interesting
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What did you love best about A Desert Called Peace?
If you are interested in the adventures of a very realistic and effective military antihero, this is the series for you.Fair warning: the attitudes evinced by the characters in this book are strongly NOT politically correct and contain strong elements of nationalism, chauvinism and situational morality.On the plus side, it's clear that Kratman has thought deeply about the issues he fictionalizes and his point of view is clear and powerfully pragmatic. In addition, anyone who pays as much homage to Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" as he does can't be all bad. (He even has two of his characters author a work based on Heinlein's fictional "History and Moral Philosophy" and presents extensive quotes from their fictional writings.)What other book might you compare A Desert Called Peace to and why?
John Ringo's Kildar series is similar, somewhat less realistic and more novelistic.How did the narrator detract from the book?
Unfortunately, James Fouhey is a TERRIBLE narrator. He mispronounces any number of words, leaves odd and confusing pauses between words. He also allows his voice volume level to drop to nearly inaudible when voicing characters' thoughts. This makes listening in a vehicle difficult because you're having to repeatedly mess with the volume in order to hear.James Fouhey also has a poor tone of voice for some of the characters -- for example, making the incredibly strong, mature main character sound like a college kid.Taken together, these issues significantly detract from the book.Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I hated the first book, not because it was badly written, but because the main character is so brutal and makes many decisions that are difficult to respect, even given his motivations.I wound up listening to all the books trying to understand WHY Kratman wrote these books and what his message was, especially since it seemed clear that he was ambivalent at best about his main character. I wound up enjoying the military details and treating it as an essay on "how it should be done" with plot and character elements largely window-dressing along with an exercise in profiling a complex, harsh, relatively unlikeable but nonetheless powerful character.
For contrast, compare his attitude towards Patricio Carrera throughout the books with the way he writes about the Fuentes character in "Legion Amazonia", his strongest book. Legion Amazonia is an interesting and compelling book despite (or perhaps because of) the awkwardness he didn't manage to overcome when he was writing about women in general and gay and lesbian soldiers in particular from an external perspective.
Without knowing any of Kratman's history beyond what little bio is available on the internet, it feels like he's drawing on his personal experiences as a comrade and commander of such soldiers since the parts where he's writing about their internal feelings and motivation rings hollow, while his discussions of the practical matters of training, leading and organizing female and LGBT troops smack fascinatingly of reality and experience.
Any additional comments?
It's pretty apparent that though set in a Science Fiction universe, this series is STRONGLY rooted in Kratman's time in Panama and can be read as a fictionalized extrapolation of his experiences there.Interesting and provocative book.
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Recommended!
Good Listen!
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good atart
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Seriously, the author seemed to get too caught up in political theory and how evil the liberal, environmentally active... and whatever other anti-conservative names he could think of, organizations were misbehaving than with making the story work. Oh yeah. Arabs are also evil. Well, they're all evil except the English speaking, whiskey drinking Arabs he likes.
If you're a very conservative Rush Limbaugh fan and enjoy reading political theory with some story and a little action every now and then, you might enjoy this book. I cannot recommend it though. To me it was one-dimensional, with poorly drawn characters and a thin plot and story line.
The description is better than the execution
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