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Pay Off
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Pay OffPay Off

Stephen Leather - Pay Off

Why does a wealthy Scottish financier set up a drugs deal with the IRA, jeopardize his career, endanger his family and lover by tangling with the East End underworld and a ruthless mercenary? The motive is simple: revenge, for a cold-blooded act of murder.

 
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Tags: mercenary, ruthless, underworld, tangling, motive
In The Hour Before Midnight
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In The Hour Before MidnightIn The Hour Before Midnight

Stacey Wyatt is a gifted pianist. He is also a competent mercenary soldier. But at the moment, he is sojourning in an Egyptian prison.
Sean Burke has plans to rescue him. Charity is not his motive. He merely needs Stacey for what becomes a deadly intrigue. There is just one hitch.
Stacey Wyatt is a typical Higgins creation. Born into a life of privilege, raised by a Sicilian capo, he escapes into a world of the mercenary and finally learns, almost too late, where his true loyalties should lie. Is Sean Burke really the true friend, or an opportunist who could shed Wyatt like an old shirt? What about Joanna, or Rose, or all the others.
 
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Tags: Wyatt, Stacey, mercenary, Burke, almost, Before
Starship: Mercenary
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Starship: MercenaryStarship: Mercenary

The date is 1968 of the Galactic Era, almost three thousand years from now. The Republic, created by the human race but not yet dominated by it, is in the midst of an all-out war with the Teroni Federation. Captain Wilson Cole, a man with a reputation for exceeding orders but getting results, found himself the victim of a media feeding frenzy, a political scapegoat despite years of dedicated military service. Faced with a court martial, he was rescued by the loyal crew of his ship, the Theodore Roosevelt. Branded mutineers, the Teddy R. has quit the Republic, never to return.
 
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Tags: years, Republic, service, Faced, court, Republic, Starship, years, Mercenary, military
Glen Cook The Dark Company Series
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Glen Cook The Dark Company Series
The Black Company is Glen Cook's ongoing series, The Black Company. The books combine elements of epic fantasy and dark fantasy as they describe the dealings of an elite mercenary unit, the Black Company, with the Lady, ruler of the Northern Empire.
 
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The Dogs of War
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The Dogs of WarThe Dogs of War
(1974) is a war novel by Frederick Forsyth chronicling a company of European mercenary soldiers hired by a British industrialist to depose the government of the African country of Zangaro. An eponymous film was released in 1981, based upon the novel and directed by John Irvin.
The mercenary protagonists, (like the protagonist the author's earlier novel The Day of the Jackal [1971]) are professional killers — ruthless, violent men, heroic only in the word's loosest sense, thus, they are anti-heroes. The Irishman Carlo Alfred Thomas "Cat" Shannon, commander of the mercenary group, is the exception; the others are life's losers, emotionally impoverished, expendable men.
The story details a geologist's mineral discovery, and the preparations for the attack: soldier recruitment, training, reconnaissance, and the coup d'état logistics (buying weapons, transport, payment). Like most of Forsyth's work, the novel is more about the protagonists' occupational tradecraft than their characters. The Dogs of War title is a term from line 270, scene 1, Act III: Cry, 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war, from the play Julius Caesar (1599), by William Shakespeare.
Novelist Forsyth draws upon his journalistic experiences in reporting the Biafran War between Biafra and Nigeria; though fictional, the Central African 'Republic of Zangaro', is based upon Equatorial Guinea, a former Spanish colony . The novels's dedication — five named men and "the others in the unmarked graves" concludes: "at least we tried" — clearly alludes to Forsyth's time in Biafra; the dark tone and cynical plot of the story stem from the same source. 
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Tags: novel, mercenary, Zangaro, based, protagonists