The Mercenaries

  • The Mercenaries
    By H. Beam Piper

    This is perfectly exemplified in a bit of dialogue found in his short story Oomphel in the Sky" "He actually knows what has to be done and how to do it, and he's going right ahead and doing it, without holding a dozen conferences and round ...

  • The Mercenaries
    By H. Piper

    H. Beam Piper's classic short story: Once, wars were won by maneuvering hired fighting men; now wars are different-and the hired experts are different. But the human problems remain!

  • The Mercenaries
    By Ed Greenwood

    A shadowy figure hires a group of unemployed pirates to aid him on a dangerous mission. But the mission has a hidden purpose, and somewhere behind the scenes it connects to the kidnapping of a young bride from Waterdeep.

  • The Mercenaries: Mad Dogs and Englishmen
    By P. W. Storm

    Michael "Mad Dog" Hertzog lived for soldiering—but he wasn't willing to die following the orders of bureaucrats and incompetents.

  • The Mercenaries: Blood Diamonds
    By P. W. Storm

    After assembling his own "private security" force made up of the able and disenchanted from the U.S. military and British Secret Intelligence Service, Mad Dog and his team are off to Angola to recover a missing cache of gemstones.