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Tu'an
Five years after the events of Partholon, a juggernaut Red Army bears down on what's left of the poorly led, underequipped, and betrayed US 1st Combined Arms Division, nicknamed the Ghosts. Victory is assured; America will fall. But Sergeant Collier Rashkil and his lover, the beautiful and ruthless Major Rosa Arce, are Ghosts. And Ghosts don't die.
Trapped in the swamplands of south Jersey, the Ghosts maintain a thin line of defense, their survival dependent on the intelligence Rosa and Collier provide. But a reconnaissance mission goes very, very wrong, and Rosa discovers there is a traitor in their midst, one willing to sacrifice all their lives for a flawed Utopian vision.
Based on an Irish legend, Tu'an is a hair-raising story of brutal combat, of betrayal, survival, and a love that no enemy, no war, not even death, can end.
Trapped in the swamplands of south Jersey, the Ghosts maintain a thin line of defense, their survival dependent on the intelligence Rosa and Collier provide. But a reconnaissance mission goes very, very wrong, and Rosa discovers there is a traitor in their midst, one willing to sacrifice all their lives for a flawed Utopian vision.
Based on an Irish legend, Tu'an is a hair-raising story of brutal combat, of betrayal, survival, and a love that no enemy, no war, not even death, can end.
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Published September 2, 2017
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D. Krauss
15 books52 followersD. Krauss currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley. He's been a cottonpicker, a sod buster, a surgical orderly, the guy who paints the little white line down the middle of the road, a weatherman, a gun-totin’ door-kickin’ lawman, a layabout, and a bus driver, in that order.
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December 21, 2017
Man oh man what a great read. Tu'an is as perfect a military novel as I have ever read. D. Krauss has written a damn near perfect book. Tightly written with real characters fighting against hopeless odds. Tu'an takes place five years after Partholon (another excellent novel) with the United States in full blown civil war between the pro democracy side and the communist side. Everything is destroyed, everyone is tired and there is no end in sight.
D. Krauss has written a beautiful allegory on honor and duty by showing corruption among leaders and desertion among troops. Idealism in a land destroyed. Love among death. He writes about cynicism, but notes the even most cynical are idealists underneath it all.
This is a military novel in a post-apocalyptic world, yet, the post-apocalyptic is almost an afterthought. A reason to go to war, but the reason is long gone and now you fight to fight. Plenty of action to suit even the most die hard adrenaline junkie, but there is a deep current with D. Krauss societal study. This is a war of ideas and what society is willing to do to attain those ideas.
Tu'an is an excellent read and I could not put the novel down. It is engrossing. D. Krauss writing is so vibrant that I could smell the smoke. This is a keeper.
D. Krauss has written a beautiful allegory on honor and duty by showing corruption among leaders and desertion among troops. Idealism in a land destroyed. Love among death. He writes about cynicism, but notes the even most cynical are idealists underneath it all.
This is a military novel in a post-apocalyptic world, yet, the post-apocalyptic is almost an afterthought. A reason to go to war, but the reason is long gone and now you fight to fight. Plenty of action to suit even the most die hard adrenaline junkie, but there is a deep current with D. Krauss societal study. This is a war of ideas and what society is willing to do to attain those ideas.
Tu'an is an excellent read and I could not put the novel down. It is engrossing. D. Krauss writing is so vibrant that I could smell the smoke. This is a keeper.
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