Review: An Action-Fest Adventure!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 10 7, 2012
Mercenaries of Earth by Tomas Braun is a unique science fiction action story where broken bodied veterans of Earth are recruited by aliens for a mission.  The prize? New, twenty year old bodies.  Alas, the deal may prove too good to be true.When I read Mercenaries, what sets it apart from other action stories is the apparent, real life experiences of the author in jungle fighting, and fighting with guns.  For example, he describes how the team of mercenaries keep watch in the jungle: every member is lying on his belly, with feet touching each other.  One man stays awake and alert while the other members are asleep in their positions on the ground.  When the watch rotates to next person, the sentry taps his foot to awake the next man.Additionally, Tomas Braun has a big, humongous love for guns.  He describes each model in very specific detail, what the strengths and weaknesses are for each model, and the situations that the weapon is best suited towards.  The author is clearly an expert on these weapons.The one weakness in Mercenaries of Earth is the background for the aliens. How many alien species are there?  How was mind transfer technology developed?  I feel there is a lot of background material missing, and deducted one star for this reason.Mercenaries of Earth by Tomas Braun is an action based sci-fi story where bullets fly non-stop as the mercenaries try to accomplish the original mission set out by their alien recruiters, and try to stay alive in the process.