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Mercenary Salvage Company
- Narrated by: Daniel Wisniewski
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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Mercenary Salvage Company
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Summary
First countries, then worlds no longer kept large standing armies. They preferred to hire mercenaries, spending their citizens’ money rather than their citizens’ lives. Governments found it more cost-effective to keep their populations working, continuing to pay taxes rather than dying on some battlefield. War became a business. As in times of old, owning a mercenary company became a way for the ordinary man to become wealthy...if he survived.
Dad and I own the Cain Salvage Company. Some call us carrion living off the carcass of war. Buzzards picking the bones of the war machines left behind on cold battlefields. I suppose that’s one way to look at it, but they still bought our salvage.
No one is immune to the effects of war. Except maybe the rich or corrupt, who often are the same people. Liquid fuel is expensive and hard to get, so local farmers contracted us to salvage a nuclear-pellet-powered electric vehicle that would run for years before needing to be refueled. It was a good deal. Rather than cash, we’d receive a percentage of the farmer’s crops for ten years to sell or eat as we needed.
Nowhere is completely safe, especially around the battlefield, cold or not. I felt the proof as I wiped the sweat from my face, starting the wound to bleed again. I’d already been blown up once today, and didn’t feel like repeating it again.
Dad called that “gallows humor.” I started to smile, but my smile faded remembering the fresh grave not 20 feet away. I had sealed dad’s body in a body bag and buried him.
I’d wanted to cry, but I’d had no tears left. In the last five years, I’d buried my mother, then my sister, and now my father. This war had taken all my tears. You’d think an 18-year-old would have had more. This was supposed to be an easy salvage job, but in the business of war, nothing is ever easy.
I knew I’d have to fight through hyenas, people who steal and scavenge from other people, to fulfill the contract with the farmers. I looked over the battlefield and saw in my mind’s eye a vision of my future. I would start a mercenary salvage company. I had no problem killing hyenas or anyone else who got in my way. This battlefield had left me weapons, ammunition, and equipment to get the job done, with plenty left over to start my company.
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- graham goss
- 19-01-23
Not other list .
Really liked the book , and the narrator was fab but the long so very long lists of equipment ,well that was just very superfluous .
the author must be a very organised individual.
can't wait for a 2nd book.
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- tommy brown
- 12-01-23
He Did It Again
Another classic created and as usual the story will not continue. Mr. Haddock is in my top 3 are a author, but i can not take the pain of the series ending prematurely anymore. Well i say that now, but i will purchase the next book per usual. Keep the classics coming.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-03-23
It was fine
Cheap pulpy sci-if that was entertaining and had a good premise concerning the disposable nature of battlefield collateral
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- Christine M.
- 12-03-23
Long, long lists of equipment and staff
I love James Haddock and have listened to 6 of his books and loved them. However, this one was repetitive in plot line: the same thing kept happening over and over, and then it just ended. There were very long and boring lists of equipment -- perhaps better in a written book, but interminable in an audiobook. Skip this one and listen to some of his other books.
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- Jonathan
- 04-03-23
what a let down
at like the 33% mark this book goes from interesting idea to an annoying mess.
it was the constant use of military acronyms, which got old after the 80th time he used "fmc" in a chapter. to the constant killing off of characters that are 10x more interesting than the main character.
very little salvaging happens or actual fighting . . . . and the lists. . good lord.
easy pass.
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- Anonymous User
- 04-02-23
The story is a great one and the performance the best
Not only the best but I love the characters all fun as well as believable great story line enjoy it and hope you continue the journey.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-02-23
The best book ever
I disliked nothing and the story was perfect and manly not the shitty books that’s out right now
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- Charming
- 31-01-23
I eased with Haddock stories
I found Haddock books with the Duty call stories, and the mage story’s His stories read by Daniel Wisniewski is just brilliant story telling I love them please treat yourself to great story telling don’t take these stories as fact but just what they are written for great story telling
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- C E Wright
- 27-01-23
A Haddock story with no real cliffhanger.
Wisniewski again with an absolutely sterling performance.
Overall good Sci-Fi tale with seemingly plausible science. A very enjoyable Audible book.
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- Kevin Nolte
- 27-01-23
Good read
I liked this book and hope there will be more. The story line was great and the ending was perfect.
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- Randy Smith
- 22-01-23
Good
This whole story was a constant yo-yo of events. I guess if you’re running for your life you gotta take every opportunity. Overall, it was still good story.