The sunrise was the colour of bad blood. It leaked out of the east and stained the dark sky red, marked the scraps of the cloud with stolen gold. Underneath it the road twisted up...

Civilians who volunteer generally wish to escape, not to share, privatizations worse than their own.

Speechless and very nearly panting, she fell back against the wall with a thump, knowing that if she lived to be ninety, she would still carry the searing mark of that kiss on her soul.”At...

Think for yourselves for a change. You’ve been pedlars: go and be merchants. You’ve been mercenaries: go and find something of your own to defend. You’ve finished teething and there’s the world: crack it open...

Please. Put the gun down and we’ll talk. A beautiful woman holding a small cannon plays hell with my concentration. Christovao (Chris) Santos, Sanctuary

By not burning their poppy fields to the ground but instead maintaining a security umbrella that international development agencies could safely work under as they improved these ordinary people’s lives, we would win their ‘hearts...

Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all.

Being a mercenary, though… Hey, we just go wherever there’s a mixture of money and trouble, and everyone in the galaxy is a potential customer.Even the people you’re paid to shoot at?Well, yeah. There are...

In medieval times, contrary to popular belief, most knights were bandits, mercenaries, lawless brigands, skinners, highwaymen, and thieves. The supposed chivalry of Charlemagne and Roland had as much to do with the majority of medieval...

Maxim 6: If violence wasn’t your last resort, you failed to resort to enough of it.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree...

Air traffic control is going to have a steamy old fit on your dime, boy.They can get in line behind the police, the people whose cars we trashed, the Empire of Ob’enn, the Partnership Collective,...

Oh, that’s great. That way, when things have quieted down, and we come up for air, or money, or re-supply, we’ll get a nice explosive package from him that says “so nice to see you...

Are you done briefing the company yet?We, um… Haven’t gotten through the introductions yet.Allow me: Time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, this is the mercenary company “Tagon’s Toughs.”Company, this is the time-traveling Kevyn Andreyasn, who will have become...

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

Maxim 2: A sergeant in motion outranks a lieutenant who doesn’t know what’s going on.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries