Hammer's Slammers Books
Hammer's Slammers return to the intergalactic firefight in an off-planet battle with a fierce breed of aliens who are not only armed with blasters, but are also capable of teleporting
Colonel Alois Hammer's indomitable armored brigade attempts to win a two-front war against an overwhelming foreign foe while protecting the existing civilian power structures against the opposition of religious fanatics
The battle-crazed troop of recruits and vets, led by Captain Ranson, must cover three-hundred miles of hostile enemy territory
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
Further adventures of Hammer's Slammers: the toughest, meanest bunch of mercenaries who ever wrecked a world for pay!
Now with a new foreword by David Drake! THE SAGA OF THE SLAMMERS BEGINS! COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER: He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. When a planetary government faces unfriendly natives, guerrilla insurgents, or ruthless terrorists, they do the only thing that might save them— they hire Hammer's Slammers, the toughest, meanest bunch of mercs who ever wrecked a world for pay. Known throughout the galaxy for their cold, ruthless ferocity, the men of Colonel Hammer's indomitable armored brigade routinely accept impossible missions. Again and again, they go up against overwhelming forces, or fight a two-front war against ferocious opposition, all without atomizing their civilian employers. Can they keep doing it Not if they abide by the rules of civilized warfare...but nobody ever said the Hammers were nice. Even when their chances are not good—those who oppose them have no chance at all! Publisher's Note: THE TANK LORDS contains two full volume's worth of the Hammer's Slammer's saga, for the first time presented in chronological story sequence as determined by the author. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). Vietnam veteran, former lawyer, former bus driver, and now bestselling author, David Drake tells a military story like no other. His readers recognize that he can take them where no one else can, with gut-wrenching description that puts them face-to-face with the enemy, and in the midst of the action right on the battlefield. He helped create the audience for mercenary military science fiction with his best-selling "Hammer's Slammers" books. Drake graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Iowa, majoring in history (with honors) and Latin. His stint at Duke University Law School was interrupted for two years by the U.S. Army, where he served as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry in Vietnam and Cambodia. Drake has a wife, a son, and various pets.
Lt. Arne Huber, a member of Hammer's Slammers, and his fellow mercenaries head for Plattner's World, a planet torn apart by civil war, as they struggle to deal with government officials with hidden, private agendas, street thugs, and a hostile division of powerful tanks. Reprint.