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Yellow Eyes-ARC

(Ojos Amarillos:
La Defensa de Panama)

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Stand Against the Posleen Horde!

Earth invaded!  The Posleen aggressors eating what population they don't outright vaporize!  Now the aliens are closing in on a vital choke point for the humans:  the Panama Canal.  No canal, no food.  No food—the North American resistance crumbles, and hope fades.  What's worse, slimeball appeasers within the U.S. State Department (surprise!) are set to sell out the resistance to another race of would-be galactic overlords.

One problem for our enemies:  when the chips are down for humans, heroes have a habit of arising: A captain of industry who whips a corrupt and inefficient Central American kleptocracy into fighting shape within weeks.  A retired Panamanian woman warrior who returns to the field of battle to rally her people in a last stand to save their children.  And a battleship that is literally brought to consciousness by the echoes of ancient naval tradition (and a sentient A.I.) to fight ferociously for her country — and the captain she's come to love.

It's a rip-roaring epic of tactics, heroism, and survival as only two masters of military SF (both of whom served in Panama during their stint in the Army) can tell it. 

Multiple New York Times and USA Today best-seller John Ringo and Tom Kratman, collaborator with Ringo on the intriguing and controversial Watch on the Rhine, deliver another exciting entry in Ringo's hugely popular Posleen War series.

Cover Art by Stephen Hickman



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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, April 2007

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2103-7
ISBN-10: 1-4165-2103-8

Copyright © 2007 by John Ringo & Tom Kratman. "Winterborn" lyrics written by Rogue, copyright © 2003, song performed by The Crüxshadows (www.cruxshadows.com). Printed by permission of Dancing Ferret Discs.

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For the owners, operators and ladies
of the Ancon Inn (Panama City)
and el Moro (Colon).
Thank you. Let's do it again some time.

And, as always:

For Captain Tamara Long, USAF
Born: 12 May, 1979
Died: 23 March 2003, Afghanistan
You fly with the angels now.

 
You are going to have the fever,
Yellow eyes!
In about ten days from now
Iron bands will clamp your brow;
Your tongue resemble curdled cream,
A rusty streak the centre seam;
Your mouth will taste of untold things
With claws and horns and fins and wings;
Your head will weigh a ton or more,
And forty gales within it roar!
 
In about ten days from now
You will feebly wonder how
All your bones can break in twain
And so quickly knit again!
You will feel a score of Jaels
In your temples driving nails!
You will wonder if you're shot
Through the liver-case, or what!
You will wonder if such heat
Isn't Hades—and repeat!
Then you'll sweat until, at length,
You—won't—have—a—kitten's—strength!
 
In about ten days from now
Make to health a parting bow;
For you're going to have the fever,
Yellow eyes!
 

—James Stanley Gilbert,
"Panama Patchwork," 1909

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