by Drak Bibliophile | May 27, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 11 “This is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen, Kris,” Ayres said. “They’re treating us like guests, not enemies. No threats and no attempts to bribe anyone into...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 25, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 10 Chapter Four “Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent’s fate.” –Sun...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 22, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 09 “Wait! Wait!” one of the Santa Josefinan teamsters cried. Sadly, Marciano didn’t hear him. His finger squeezed the trigger until he was rewarded with a loud boom. The horse...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 20, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 08 Which, thought Fosa, may become kind of important given that most of the Tauran helicopters were faster than the older modified crop dusters. Wish we’d been able to get more of the Gabriels, but at what...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 18, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 07 Chapter Three There are five normal methods of launching a Condor, including rolling them out the loading ramp of an airship. The other four are to a) carry or toss them over the edge of a cliff, b) via the...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 15, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 06 ***** On their half an hour’s walk to safety at Khalid’s rented safe house, they saw horror aplenty, from gang rapes, to lynchings to apartment building’s being burned...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 13, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 05 But with those two, you never really know. These things could have come from Sumer, or from any of two dozen other places that make Volgan-designed arms. Be funny if they came from the Zhong, though, all...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 11, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 04 Chapter Two “But when Islam emerged it put slavery into order, by limiting it to legitimate wars between Muslims and their enemies…the female prisoners of wars are ‘those whom you own’…in order to...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 8, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 03 “Don’t be too hard on him,” Carrera said. “The Tauran Union Expeditionary Force was under a bombardment that may as well have been nuclear.” “I never thought especially well of the...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 6, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 02 Carrera finished the white flag, then stood silently for a long minute. Finally, he wiped one hand across his face, sighed and said, “This is defensible, too, Jamey. Maybe more importantly, it’s...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 4, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
The First Snippet of this book will also be posted today. Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – What has gone before Days of Burning, Days of Wrath Thomas P. Kratman For: Leo F. Casey, English Teacher Par Excellence, Boston Latin School (My errors are mine, not his.)...
by Drak Bibliophile | May 4, 2020 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
Note, I’ve posted a “What Has Gone On Before” for this book today. Days of Burning, Days of Wrath – Snippet 01 Chapter One “Die hard, Fifty-seventh, die hard!” –Lieutenant Colonel William Inglis, Battle of Albuera, 1811...
by Drak Bibliophile | Nov 7, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
This book should be available now, so this is the last snippet. A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 38 Tauran Defense Agency Headquarters, Lumière, Gaul, Terra Nova Campbell and Turenge decided to lead their report for Janier with a litany of the anomalies,...
by Drak Bibliophile | Nov 5, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 37 CHAPTER THIRTEEN “Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.” –Virgil, the Aeneid Tauran Defense Agency Headquarters, Lumière, Gaul, Terra Nova One entry in the spreadsheets and reports given her by Vladimir puzzled...
by Drak Bibliophile | Nov 2, 2018 | KratmanSnippets, Snippets
A Pillar Of Fire By Night – Snippet 36 Academia Militar Sergento Juan Malvegui, Puerto Lindo, Balboa Schools were in many ways ideal for military headquarters. They had auditoria, classrooms for offices and billeting, mess facilities, sometimes medical...