Tom Kratman

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 2003
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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Full Series List in Order

Carerra

1 - A Desert Called Peace (Sep-2007)
2 - Carnifex (Nov-2007)
3 - The Lotus Eaters (Apr-2010)
4 - The Amazon Legion (Apr-2011)
5 - Come and Take Them (Nov-2013)
6 - The Rods and the Axe (Jul-2014)
7 - A Pillar of Fire by Night (Nov-2018)
8 - Days of Burning, Days of Wrath (Aug-2020)

The Liberators

1 - Countdown (Jan-2011)
2 - Countdown: M Day (Sep-2011)
3 - Countdown: H Hour (Aug-2012)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • State of Disobedience

    Welcome to the Second American Revolution. You're in for the fight of your life! IT'S TIME TO REMEMBER THE ALAMO -- AGAIN! They feel our pain? Do they? Time: The near future. Place: The so-called United' States of America. A Body Politic tra...

  • A Desert Called Peace

    Carerra - 1

    THEY SHOULD HAVE PICKED THEIR ENEMIES MORE CAREFULLY . . . Five hundred years from now, humankind has found a link to a remarkably Earthlike planet and settled there, dividing -- as humans will -- into dozens of nation-states. The Federated States o...

  • Carnifex

    Carerra - 2

    Revenge: it won't bring your wife and kids back, but it might help with the nightmares. Patricio Carrera has been waging what amounts to a private world war to bring to justice the murderers of his family. He's raised an army and air force and use...

  • Caliphate

    DEMOGRAPHY'S DARK DESTINY Demography is destiny. In the 22nd century European deathbed demographics have turned the continent over to the more fertile Moslems. Atheism in Europe has been exterminated. Homosexuals are hanged, stoned or crucified. Suc...

  • The Lotus Eaters

    Carerra - 3

    Sometimes paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness. Carrera's won his war, and inflicted a horrific revenge upon his enemies. But there are wars after wars. - The Tauran Union is planning an attack. - The criminals of neighboring states ar...

  • Countdown

    The Liberators - 1

    BACK IN ACTION Old soldiers never die...except inside...when they lack a reason to live. Old soldier Wes Stauer is dying inside, from sheer lack of purpose. And then comes the knock on the door: "Our leader's son and heir has been kidnapped. W...

  • The Amazon Legion

    Carerra - 4

    On the colony planet of Terra Nova, Carrera has achieved his revenge, destroying those who had destroyed his life by killing his wife and children in a terrorist strike. And, with this help of his second wife, he has thwarted an attempted coup that w...

  • Countdown: M Day

    The Liberators - 2

    War is brutal. Colonel Wes Stauer gets it. He ought to. He was once one of war's most brutal practitioners -- not to mention one of its most effective and least bloody. Brutal yes; stupid no. Now, not only must Stauer command his crack outfit of fo...

  • Countdown: H Hour

    The Liberators - 3

    Welcome to the Philippines outback. It’s a true garden spot, if you happen to like drug running, bush-bound revolutionary movements, Balkanized tribal warfare, illegal weapons trading, and kidnapping for fun and profit. It’s hostage rescue tim...



  • Come and Take Them

    Carerra - 5

    Number five in the Carrera military science fiction series that started with A Desert Called Peace. Miltary leader Carrera faces down a threat from progressive totalitarians and wins the freedom of his country on a frontier planet. The Carrera sa...

  • The Rods and the Axe

    Carerra - 6

    Tarawa. Iwo. Normandy. Names that shine in the military history of two worlds, places where brave men stormed ashore and fought their way to victory no matter the odds. But then there are other names: Marathon. Malta. Gallipoli. Balboa’s Patrici...

  • Forbidden Thoughts

    You are not supposed to read this book. You are not supposed to think about reading this book. In fact, just plain thinking at all is unacceptable. You have been warned.... From hilarious to horrifying to dangerously insightful, a selection of storie...

  • A Pillar of Fire by Night

    Carerra - 7

    Carrera's held off his enemies coming by sea from the north, in the process dealing the naval and amphibious forces of the Zhong Empire a stinging defeat. The Zhong won't soon forget the blood-stained waters and the heaped up bodies on the shores of...

  • Terra Nova: The Wars of Liberation

    New stories set in Tom Kratman's hard-hitting Carrera military sf series "Send us your tired, your poor," says the inscription at the base of the great statue, "your huddled masses yearning to be free." But the future of th...

  • Days of Burning, Days of Wrath

    Carerra - 8

    When Patricio Carrera’s family was murdered by Salafist terrorists aided and abetted by the fleet of alien Earth, the only restraint on his ruthlessness and ambition was also removed. Now, after decades of war and preparation for war in his adopted...

  • The Romanov Rescue

    FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PAPERBACK: A NEW NOVEL OF ALTERNATE HISTORY FROM MASTER OF MILITARY SF TOM KRATMAN, JUSTIN WATSON, AND KACEY EZELL. As WWI comes to a close, a German general, an escaped prisoner of war, and the crew of an airship converge t...

  • Dirty Water

    A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME—BACK TO BOSTON!1462: an alien who feasts on the suffering of sentient beings dines off the agonies of Vlad the Impaler’s twenty-thousand victims near Targoviste, Romania. 1688: a woman is framed for witchcr...

  • 1919

    The campaign to defeat the Bolsheviks and rescue Russia from a dark and terrible path continues, in a new alternate history series from master of military SF Tom Kratman.IS RUSSIA DOOMED? No imperial family stuck in a little out of the way town, wit...

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Tom Kratman has published 18 books.

The next book by Tom Kratman, 1919, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Tom Kratman, State of Disobedience, was published in December 2003.

Yes. Tom Kratman has 2 series.
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