Mercenary's Soldiers

A Wild Geese Science Fiction Novel

By: Steven M. Silver

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

In the 29th Century, the greatest evil in the human settled worlds is slavery, the ultimate expression of wealth and power. While many oppose it, on some worlds it flourishes, restrained only by the slaveholders’ fear of the slaves themselves, for there is no such thing as slave loyalty. However, in the shattered, burned rubble of Torianis, a rebel warlord’s elite soldiers, soldiers who died fighting with an almost inhuman precision and competency, put the Free Union’s intelligence service on the track of what might be programmable slaves. More than mass produced clones, someone has found a way to inculcate knowledge and values, making what appear to be perfect super-soldiers. The Free Union, of which Kodomir is a member, believes more super-soldiers are being made and their point of invasion of the Union will be Kodomir. Kodomir’s Wild Geese are asked to covertly track down and prevent the invasion. But the tracking comes with a cost and the Geese must find a way to survive when their enemies include a turn-coat regiment used for wholesale slaughter, the defenders of the super-soldier manufacturing facility, and the armed might of an entire world and its mercenaries. Caught in the middle are thousands of innocents. Steven M. Silver, combat veteran, psychologist, and historian, takes the reader along in the search for what it means to be human, something as important as the weapons carried by soldiers in any battle. Mercenary’s Soldiers is the sixth novel in the Wild Geese series.