By David Drake
That they had fought hard and long, and rattling close to gained after all. yet now the lads who employed them are going to promote them to the enemy...and so starts off a unique of experience during which a band of big name Mecenaries is pushed around the face of a planet via enemies bent on their distruction. With purely the weapons of their arms, this tiny band needs to conflict ships, artillery, treachery, and the main robust tank within the universe.
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So, and seeing how high they lifted that balloon before they started to jaw ... " Bertinelli began to curse under his breath. He moved the glove to his patient's left shoulder. Del resumed his observation of the transponder balloon. " he asked. His friend snorted again. All the humor was gone from his voice as he replied, "Wish to hell I knew, darling. Wish to hell. " The only light in the Operations Center was the green glow of the phosphor screen. It emphasized the wrinkled anger of Colonel Fasolini's face as he said, "Gibberish!
Excellency," he said, "they'll probably make another pass. " The response came on the Power Room line. Nadia Kawalec had not risked her own life among possible live ordnance. "Don't act stupider than you already are, Ortschugin," she snapped. "They're bombing here just to scatter the locals and keep them from blowing the place up. " Why the hell not? the First Officer wondered silently. The copper would not be paid for until it was delivered on Novaya Swoboda. The Rubes would be just as glad of that golden egg as the Federals had been.
They were the tacticians of the Company, but the present situation was too amorphous for their skills to be of any use. Lieutenant ben Mehdi bent forward and said, "We don't have to read the transmissions to know what they're saying, do we, Guido? The only thing we don't know is the exact terms the Major's holding out for—and that doesn't matter to us, because we ought to be making terms with the Republicans for ourselves, right now, before it all hits the fan. " There was silence again in the OC.