Deaths Head

by David Gunn (Author)

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  2007

  $6.22

  The cage will kill you. And if it doesn't, then no matter because thirst and the blistering heat of the desert sun sure as hell will. Or drive you insane. Few legionnaires live long enough to be bound to the whipping post and, of those who do, few are in a state to know what is happening to them. One who does is an ex-sergeant in the legion etranger. e knows when the first lash falls and he knows when the desert tribes attack, slaughtering his comrades before they can kill him. But what he doesn't know is that he's about to take the first few steps on what's going to be one hell of a journey. A journey that takes him from facing certain death in a forgotten fort in a far-away desert to a secret meeting with a certain General Indigo Glanville, commander in chief of the Death's Head. This special ops force is so deadly and so feared that the mere mention of its name or sight of its uniform is usually enough to make most enemies surrender. Except it seems there's an enemy out there who doesn't seem to want to play by the rules, twisted thought they may be, and Glanville thinks he might have found just the man for this particular mission... And so, out of this meeting strides recen

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $4.30

  Few survive the cage. Fewer still live to face the whipping post. Of those who do, few are in a state to know what is happening to them. One of those who does is ex-Legion Etrangere sergeant Sven Tveskoeg. As this stubborn, insubordinate son-of-a-bitch feels the first lash fall, he hears the desert tribes attack, and watches as they slaughter his comrades before they can execute him. Rescued from certain death, Sven joins the tribes. Until his ruthless skills come to the attention of the Death's Head, the infamous elite special ops force. They want Sven to sort out a little 'local difficulty'. But it seems all is not as it should be. Sven feels he's a pawn in a deadly game, and pawns have an unfortunate habit of being sacrificed. But Death's Head Second Lieutenant Tveskoeg, Obsidian Cross 3rd Class, is nobody's sacrifice. And even a pawn can checkmate a king...