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Every favour has a price. Prison collects in full. Nicholas Glass is a young prison officer already at the end of his rope. The job is grinding him down, the inmates smell weakness, and his colleagues aren’t much better. Every shift stretches longer than the last. When a group of cons reach beyond the walls to threaten his wife and daughter, Nicholas does what he thinks any husband and father would do. He agrees to a small favour. Just once. Just to make it stop. It doesn’t stop. The threats escalate. The favours multiply.

Colonel Alois Hammer: to the galaxy, a legendary commander of mercenaries. To his troops, a leader who can be trusted to always back them to the hilt - and meet a payroll. When the situation on a planet has gone beyond desperate, it's time to call for Hammer's Slammers.

Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is dark and cold. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon to the weary traveler, planets which hold hidden dangers. And if Don Slade should ever reach Tethys... that is when the real fighting starts.

This two-story compiliation, read by Stefan Rudnicki, offers two stories from David Drake's popular Hammer's Slammers series. In At Any Price, Col. Alois Hammer's indomitable Slammers are called in to support human colonists against a native uprising in this novel-length adventure. But even though the natives' off-world weapons are no match for the Slammers, their ability to teleport gives them a frightening advantage! In Rolling Hot, the battle-crazed troop of recruits and vets, led by Captain Ranson, must cover 300 miles of hostile enemy territory.

This two-story compiliation, read by Stefan Rudnicki, offers two stories from David Drake's popular Hammer's Slammers series. In Counting the Cost, the hottest science fiction mercenaries are back, so why count the cost? The other guy is going to pay for it! Hammer's Slammers must win a two-front war while maintaining the civilian power structure against hordes of religious fanatics. In The Warrior, Colonel Alois Hammer, Luke Broglie, Tess Kuykendall, and Slick Des Grieux - cogs in a killing machine - find themselves at the center of a potential bloodbath.

Lissea Doorman wasn't one to refuse a challenge. Challenged by the rulers of Telaria to run a suicide mission, she put together a crew of tough mercenaries and brilliant specialists, ready for anything. Their journey took them through strange worlds, all the way to the Lost Colony - where they learned that their adventure was only just beginning.

Gangs ruled Cantilucca. Guns were the only law, and there was no lack of guns. It was hard to imagine matters getting worse. Until the survey team arrived.... Major Matthew Coke was not a squeamish man, but the state of affairs on Cantilucca turned his stomach. He was only human after all. Where some of the rest of his team were concerned, it was difficult to be sure: five professional mercenaries who'd learned the hard way that in the end they could defeat anything - except their own consciences.

Heed the Slammers Battle Cry! A warrior's truth: "In the long run, everybody's dead. So screw the long run!" Patriotic hoo-ha may be well and good for recruitment parades, but David Drake's battle-hardened mercenaries know it takes tanks, guns, and grit to win when the real fighting flares. Yet peace brings its own problems to old soldiers - for killing potential enemies in battle is self-limiting, but once the killing starts in peacetime, there may be no end to the madness.

Greg “Slam” Harris can play basketball, period. On the court, he’s almost unstoppable. As he says, “I can hoop. Case closed.” But off the court, it’s a different story. Every day is a struggle to keep things together. Leaving his best friend Ice behind, Slam transfers to a top-notch academic school and is easily the best player on the basketball team. But his grades are slipping, and the coach doesn’t appreciate Slam’s attitude. On top of that, Slam suspects that Ice has started selling drugs, just as their opposing teams prepare for a showdown on the court.

Welcome to another episode of the NASCAR Gambling Podcast on the Sports Gambling Podcast Network! Three days a week, Rod Villagomez and Cody Zeeb bring their love of NASCAR and their love of sports betting to you to help you set your bets for the weekend of NASCAR action. From the Craftsman Truck Series to the Xfinity Series, to the Cup Series, Rod and Cody have you covered.Today, Rod and Cody give you their favorite Sober or Slammer 200 Betting Picks 2025 from the Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Will it continue to be Heim time as we kick of the playoffs, or can the field ...

Carol spends the majority of her vagrant days socializing with her homeless neighbors, arguing with a testy social worker, and wandering the streets with Alphonse, a wayward South African wino and self-professed actor. Alphonse proves to be an inspiring force, and soon Carol is weaning herself off antidepressants as the sifting of her memories - mostly of her upbringing by two aunts in Massachusetts - creates a chance for redemption.

The #1 New York Times bestseller from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy. For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend—make that ex-girlfriend— Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble...

Step into the shadows of classic verse with Halloween Poetry Classics, a haunting collection of six unforgettable poems that have chilled readers/listeners for generations.

Hockey player Kevin Shaw, fresh out of university, just signed onto a Toronto team for a year. He knows he isn't innately gifted, but he works damn hard to make up for it. The last thing he needs during his first season of pro hockey is a distraction...but he can't say no when he's asked to train with a sexy friend of a friend. He wants to get better, grab a spot on the third or fourth line, and not let slip any hint of attraction to his new buddy.

A futuristic extrapolation of B Company, 1st of the 503rd's Operation Rock Avalanche, set in the Hammers Slammers Universe. It should be noted that this is not a "True" Hammers Slammers book. , from the book "Hammer's Crucible" miniature book, since that literally was the only other information I had available to me. Instead of the massive tank battles this book focuses on the counter-insurgency campaign that was "A New Hope" and follows in that storyline. Is considered 18 band over due to violence and language.

Brought to you by Penguin. 'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.' Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along...

2/4 Cavalry is sent along with a blower unit to Devkin to crush a rebellion. The story is based off of the "Thunder Run" scenario presented in the "Hammer's Crucible" miniatures book from the official Hammer's Slammers miniatures site. The scenario is typical Hammer's Slammers action, with some good tank action along with the unit's own brand of causing mayhem to fulfill the contract. Near classic Slammers action, it has some old combat car and blower action, though as the title suggests, is focused on 2/4 Cavalry's involvement within that scenario. It is not to be construed as a true ...

With gracious permission from David Drake, this starts the 2-4 Cavalry series that I began while deployed to Afghanistan, and was allowed to write due to my military service. This book is about a new unit, called "2-4 Cavalry" and is an aircar (used in parlance by David Drake) unit that is deployed to the planet of New Hope, a Brazilian owned planet, to suppress or destroy the El Cator gang. Throudh various scenarios the unit fights the movement, and shows that the concept, while not as well liked in some circles, is an effective unit, even if it uses a more low-tech method (no use of ...

Con el amable permiso de David Drake, comienza la serie del 2-4 de Caballería, que inicié durante mi despliegue en Afganistán y que pude escribir gracias a mi servicio militar. Este libro trata sobre una nueva unidad, llamada "2-4 de Caballería", una unidad de aerodeslizadores (término acuñado por David Drake) desplegada en el planeta Nueva Esperanza, un planeta brasileño, para sofocar o destruir a la banda El Cator. A través de diversos escenarios, la unidad combate al grupo y demuestra que, si bien el concepto no goza de popularidad en algunos círculos, es efectivo, incluso ...

Following the events of Book 3: Another Day In Paradise, and Book 4: Thunder Run, the unit is paired with the Golden Eagles, a crack mercenary tank regiment. Their mission is to suppress a breakaway republic from gaining independence from the planetary government. Given the nature of warfare the unit can't hope to survive on the front lines, and instead tasked out to provide medical evacuation of any fallen Golden Eagles members. The mission is simple: help others survive but will they survive the front lines that they have to do evacuations on?