The Third of Three Volumes Collecting the Complete Best-Selling Series
That Rocketed David Drake to Military Science Fiction Stardom.
This Omni-Trade paperback volume collects the two full-length novels,
The Sharp End and Paying the Piper, plus "The Darkness," a novelette
which has not appeared in previous Slammers books.
The Hammers are very flawed and imperfect human beings--but they know
their jobs, and they get those jobs done, one way or another. If your
nation or your planet is under attack, and you want plaster saints to
save the day . . . well, lots of luck, and it's been nice knowing you.
But if you really want your chestnuts pulled out of the fire, hire
Colonel Hammer's troops. They'll never win a beauty contest, or even a
consolation price for "most congenial," but they'll win the war--because
they're the best. They're Hammer's Slammers.
This is the third of a three volume set presenting for the first time
the entire genre-defining Slammers series in uniform Omni-trade
paperback volumes, with new introductions by major SF figures and new
afterwords by David Drake. Each volume will also include a Slammers
story not collected in previous Slammer's books.
"Fans of Drake's edgy stories of a mercenary tank regiment in a future
not all that different from our present will rejoice [at the
publication of] the entire series in three volumes. Drake, a Vietnam
vet who served in the Blackhorse Regiment, uses prose as cold and hard
as the metal alloy of a tank to portray the men and women of Hammer's
Regiment. . . . In his depiction of combat, Drake rivals Crane and
Remarque."
--Publishers Weekly, reviewing the Night Shade hardcover edition
