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Carnifex

by Tom KratmanBook 2 of 4 in A Desert Called Peace
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Description

Revenge: it won't 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. He's raised an army and air force and used them. He's raised a fleet and he's about to use that. He's suborned one republic and is about to undermine another. He's tracked his enemies across half a world, breaking, in the process, any notion of international law that stood in his way. Now he's 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 Carrera's hate still burns hot, and that's a fire that is slowly consuming him.

What it’s like

ViolenceGraphic
CombatWar-Torn
HorrorChilling

Details

First published
November 2007
Pages
656
Reading time
About 13 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Baen Books
Language
English
ISBN
9781416591504
Series
A Desert Called Peace, Book 2

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