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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jerusalem and the Sinai desert, first century AD. In the turbulent aftermath of the crucifixion of Jesus, officers of the Roman Empire acquire intelligence of a pilgrim bearing an incendiary letter from a religious fanatic to insurrectionists in Corinth. The content of this letter could bring down the empire. The Romans hire a former legionary, the solitary man-at-arms, Telamon of Arcadia, to intercept the letter and capture its courier. Telamon operates...
22) War criminals
Author
Series
Bastard Legion volume 3
Publisher
Gollancz
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Hangman's Daughter find themselves on the run when they uncover a hundred headless corpses while protecting a group of colonists in the Epsilon Eridani system.
23) Highland wolf
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Believed to have been killed as a child, Wolf, a Highland warrior, returns to reclaim his birthright and his betrothed, Lady Claray MacFarlane, who is being forced by her greedy uncle to marry a man she doesn’t know.
24) Predators
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Royce is a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors mysteriously brought together on a jungle planet. But when these cold-blooded human 'predators' find themselves in all-out war against a new breed of alien Predators, it's the ultimate showdown between hunter and prey.
25) Iron and gold
Author
Series
Wolves of Odin volume 3
Publisher
Canelo
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
AD 1043. Having escaped Constantinople with their lives - barely - but not their ship, Halfdan and the wolves of Odin are now mercenaries in the Byzantine army, sailing to Apulia in Italy to help retake territory from the Normans. But cracks are beginning to show among the tight-knit wolves. Gunnhild, having forsaken the fate woven for her by the Norns, has lost her ability to glimpse the future. And Ketil the Icelander grows resentful, as seemingly...
26) Solomon Kane
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A ruthless mercenary renounces violence after learning his soul is bound for hell. When a young girl is kidnapped and her family slain by a sorcerer's murderous cult, he is forced to fight and seek his redemption slaying evil.
27) Dark harvest
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true events of the Dyatlov Pass incident Russia, 1959. Nine members of a Soviet mountaineering team are found dead in the Ural Mountains, victims of massive and bizarre injuries. The Dyatlov Pass incident, as this grisly event came to be known, remains unexplained to this day. Iraq, 2019. Ex-soldier-turned-mercenary Cameron Becker is escorting a Russian businessman named Luka Belikov through Baghdad. It seems like a routine job, until...
Author
Series
Bastard Legion volume 1
Publisher
Gollancz, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years in the future, the most dangerous criminals are kept in suspended animation aboard prison ships and "rehabilitated" in a virtual reality environment. But Miska Corbin, a thief and hacker with a background in black ops, has stolen one of these ships and made it her own. Controlled by explosive collars, the thieves, gangsters, murderers, and worse are transformed into Miska's own private mercenary army: the Bastard Legion.
30) Hercules
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
After turning his back on the gods and honing his fighting skills working as a mercenary, Hercules is hired by the King of Thrace to train his men to become the greatest army of all time.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A 50-year-old whose been living off the grid half his life, big-hearted mercenary Will Bear finds his life taking a deadly turn when a woman claiming to be his biological daughter needs his help escaping the powerful and ruthless operation he works for.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 16
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel and loses an Oregon crewmember in the process, he's determined to get revenge. Little does he know that the explosion he just narrowly escaped was merely the latest flash of violence from a machine of war that has existed for decades, dating from the bloodiest episode in Armenia's history. With millions of innocent civilians hanging in the balance, the Oregon's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
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