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Mercenaries

Jack Ludlow · 345 pages

"Six brothers, the sons of Tancred de Hauteville, prepare to experience their first taste of battle ... 1033, the Norman/French border. They have been trained since birth to become great warriors, following in their father{u2019}s footsteps. As knights, they have but one true purpose: to fight. But denied service with their duke, they are forced to take employment as mercenaries; their unequaled b

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The Whale Road

Robert Low · 376 pages

A band of brothers, known as the Oathsworn, committed only to each other, feared by many, rises again.

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1356 (Grail Quest #)

Bernard Cornwell · 448 pages

The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poitiers and French King John II.

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The King's Gold

Arturo Perez-Reverte

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Virgins

Diana Gabaldon

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The Splintered Kingdom

James Aitcheson · 401 pages

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Monster Hunter Siege

Larry Correia · 368 pages

"When Monster Hunter International's top hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, was given a tip about some missing hunters, he didn't realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in MHI's history. Their men are being held prisoner in a nightmare dimension only reachable through radioactive ruins of a monster-infested war zone. And it is also the home base of the powerful creat

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Ash: A Secret History

Mary Gentle · 1,113 pages

Probably the biggest fantasy novel ever published in a single volume, Mary Gentle's magnificent tale of the gutsy and beautiful mercenary leader Ash will take you on an unforgettable ride through medieval Europe as it never quite was: For Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armor, and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. But she doesn't realize tha

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The Eternal Mercenary

Barry Sadler · 246 pages

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Grunge

Larry Correia, John Ringo · 307 pages

"When Marine Private Oliver Chadwick Gardenier is killed in the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut, somebody who might be Saint Peter gives him a choice: Go to Heaven or return to Earth. The Boss has a mission for him. He's a Marine: he chooses the mission. Eventually, it appears that God's will is for Chad to join a group called 'Monster Hunters International' and protect people from things that g

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King's Man

Angus Donald · 438 pages

Entreated by a betrayed and imprisoned Richard the Lionheart to save England, Robin Hood, a renegade earl and former outlaw, embarks on a deadly mission at the side of loyal lieutenant Alan Dale in a heroic bid to restore the king to the throne.

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Orcs

Stan Nicholls · 515 pages

A sojourn in their idyllic homeworld has left Stryke and the Wolverines lacking purpose. So when an opportunity for bloodletting appears, Stryke seizes it. Utilizing mysterious artifacts, the Wolverines are transported to Acurial, a world where the indigenous orc population is cruelly subjugated by human invaders. Upon their arrival, Stryke's band joins with Acurial's emerging resistance movemen

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Gardens of the Moon

Steven Erikson · 544 pages

The opening chapter in an epic fantasy masterpiece....Bled dry by interminable warfare, infighting and bloody confrontations with Lord Anomander Rake and his Tiste Andii, the vast, sprawling Malazan empire simmers with discontent.Even its imperial legions yearn for some respite. For Sergeant Whiskeyjack and his Bridgeburners and for Tattersail, sole surviving sorceress of the Second Legion, the af

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Veil of the Deserters

Jeff Salyards · 464 pages

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Memnon

Scott Oden · 595 pages

A thrillingly-told, action-packed historical novel about a near-forgotten colossus of the ancient world. . . .He lived in the shadow of kings. One trusted him with his empire; the other feared his every move. Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BC) walked in the footsteps of giants. As a soldier, sailor, statesman and general, he was, in the words of Diodorus of Sicily, "outstanding in courage and strategic

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Berserk, Vol. 8

Kentaro Miura · 232 pages

The century-spanning war between Midland and Chuder continues unabated. The two warring kingdoms, vying for supremacy, launch headfirst into what will become the final battle. Leading the Midland forces are the Band of the Hawk, lead by the charismatic Griffith, with the fearless Guts as his trusted champion. But should the Hawks triumph again on the battlefield, the war with Chuder may end, but t

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Dust World

B.V. Larson

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Broken Angels

Richard K. Morgan · 400 pages

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn't just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another. Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers,

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Before They Are Hanged

Joe Abercrombie · 543 pages

Superior Glokta has a problem. How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted, and your predecessor vanished without a trace? It’s enough to make a torturer want to run – if he could even walk without a stick. Northmen have spilled over the border of Angland and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown P

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Chronicles of the Black Company

Glen Cook · 704 pages

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Prince of Thorns

Mark Lawrence · 354 pages

After witnessing the murder of his mother and brother and leading a band of bloodthirsty thugs, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath returns to his father's castle and his birthright, but faces treachery and dark magic once he arrives.

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The Shadow of the Gods

John Gwynne · 500 pages

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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

Cormac McCarthy · 337 pages

An epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west." Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indi

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Twelve

Jasper Kent · 480 pages

Autumn, 1812. As Napoleon's army marches relentlessly into Russia, twelve mercenaries are enlisted by a group of Russian officers to turn the tide of the war. As winter closes in, the true, horrrific nature of the twelve and the nightmared unleashed begins to unfold.

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