Overview
NO REST FOR THE WEARY
Rick Galloway's still not sure what inspired him to volunteer to fight Cubans in Angola, and he certainly never expected to end his African adventure shanghaied by a flying saucer when his CIA superiors cut him and his men adrift as the Cubans overran their final position.
He didn't expect to end up on the planet Tran, God only knew how many light-years from Earth, raising drugs for an alien cartel under the auspicesāmore or lessāof a galactic civilization administered and run by a slave class of humans for their alien masters, either.
But he did. And since then, he's survived mutinies, civil wars, battles against Byzantine "Romans," medieval knights, and Mongol raiders on a world where catastrophic "climate change" races unchecked through a 600-year cycle. Along the way, he's found love, lost it, found it again, and become a great noble . . . all the while knowing his alien "employers" will probably nuke his people back into the Stone Age when they're done.
He's managed his impossible balancing act for thirteenĀ years. He's lost people he cared about, been forced to do things he's hated, and tried along the way to make life better for the people trapped on Tran with him, and he's tired. So tired.
But now, everything has changed . . . again. New Starmen have arrived on Tran, with dangerous gifts and star weapons of their own. Everything Rick GallowayĀ thoughtĀ he knew about his mission on Tran is about to be turned on its head.
Ā And everyone expectsĀ himĀ to fix it.
AboutĀ Mamelukes:
āItās a thick, meaty book of alien cultures, historical forces, military and political strategy . . . and one man determined to protect the people and things he loves. A fine capstone to the Janissaries series, well worth the wait (if not the circumstances).āāAnalog
About Jerry Pournelle:
āPossibly the greatest science fiction novel I have ever read.āāRobert A. Heinlein onĀ The Mote in God's EyeĀ by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
āJerry Pournelle is one of science fiction's greatest storytellers.āāPoul Anderson
āJerry Pournelle's trademark is first-rate action against well-realized backgrounds of hard science and hardball politics.āāDavid Drake
āRousing. . . .Ā The best of the genre.āāThe New York Times
āOn the cover . . . is the claimĀ 'No. 1 Adventure Novel of the Year.' And well it might be.āāMilwaukee JournalĀ onĀ Janissaries
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