Then he joined the army, with only the vaguest idea what to expect. Old Man’s War - John Perry did two things on his 75th birthday. And if you survive, you'll be given a generous homestead stake of your own, on one of our hard-won colony planets. You'll be taken off Earth and never allowed to return. They don't want young people they want people who carry the knowledge and skills of decades of living. What's known to everybody is that when you reach retirement age, you can join the CDF. The bulk of humanity's resources are in the hands of the Colonial Defense Force, which shields the home planet from too much knowledge of the situation. "Gripping and surpassingly original." - Cory DoctorowĮarth itself is a backwater. New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi takes you on an epic romp of galactic conquest and exploration, with some laughs along the way. Time is running out: The alliance is preparing its offensive, and some of them plan worse things than humanity's mere military defeat.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.This discounted ebundle Old Man's War, The Ghost Brigades, The Last Colony, Zoe’s Tale, The Human Division, The End of All Things As Jared desperately hunts for his "father," he must also come to grips with his own choices. But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.Īt first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers - a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. The universe is a dangerous place for humanity-and it's about to become far more dangerous. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms. The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations.
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