A Desert Called Peace — Tom Kratman

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 of Columbia has consolidated power and risen against the oppression of Earth's corrupt Caliphate. But when Salafi madmen bent on a new jihad kill FSC Captain Patrick Hennessey's family in a cowardly attack, they create an enemy that will show even less mercy than they do.

From the ashes of Patrick Hennessey's life, a legendary warrior is born: Carrera, the scourge of Salafism. He will forge an army from the decrepit remains of a military in a failing state. He will find those who killed his family. He will destroy them utterly. And only when he is finished will there be peace: the peace of an empty wind as it blows across a desert strewn with the bones of Carrera's enemies.