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  • Cutter’s Wars, Book 1
  • Written by: Steve Perry
  • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
  • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (52 ratings)

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The Ramal Extraction

Written by: Steve Perry
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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Publisher's Summary

At the close of the 24th century, a series of revolutions has caused the galaxy to descend into chaos. With the Galactic Union’s army stretched thin, mercenary units have arisen for those who have the need - and the means - to hire them.

Captained by former Detached Guerrilla Forces Colonel R. A. "Rags" Cutter, the Cutter Force Initiative is one of the best. A specialized team consisting of both aliens and humans, the Cutters offer services ranging from combat training and protection to extraction and assassination - as long as the target deserves it and their employer makes good on payday.

When they're hired to find and rescue Indira, the soon-to-be-married daughter of Rajah Ramal of New Mumbai, the team's first task is to identify the kidnapper. The obvious suspects are insurgents who want to overthrow the rajahnate, but as other forces enter the game and an assassination attempt is made on Ramal, the Cutters realize that their in-and-out extraction job is about to get a lot more interesting - and a lot more lethal.

Steve Perry is a New York Times best-selling author who has collaborated on novels in Tom Clancy’s Net Force series. A recipient of the Willamette Writers Lifetime Achievement Award, he also won an Emmy for his work on Batman: The Animated Series.

©2012 Steve Perry (P)2012 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

What the critics say

"A razor-sharp novel by a master of military science fiction." (William C. Deitz, New York Times best-selling author)
"Perry excels at hard-boiled writing, flashing dialog, and stripped-down action." ( Oregonian)

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At first I almost quit listening because I was put off by the stereotypical testosteronic ultra macho tone of the narrator. Annoying, distracting, and kind of unintentionally comical. I kept going and ended up enjoying this quite a lot. Lots of good story, interesting stuff, good characters. And I grew to appreciate the narrator - thankfully his Rambo faded as the story developed, and he did a really good job expressing all the characters - but it was his voicing of the character K that really won me over. Very well done.

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Well I’m going to listen to every audio book in this series.

This is probably my twentieth audiobook in Audible. Ive also listened to about one hundred from another source. So all in all over a hundred. My opinion is that this audiobook is in a league that few can match. It’s engaging, excellently portrayed by the voice actor, and well written by the Author. My advice,; Grab this audiobook, if you like it continue the series. (I’ve almost finished it) I’m impressed enough that I’ll search for more written by this Author.

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Gold standard in sci-fi writing.

The imagination this author has is astonishing, he goes out of his way to not mention something unlikely to exist that far in the future. He will also not explain a nonsense term as the reader should know this being from the time of the book, these little things add to the immersion. Best included book I’ve listened to so far, and I only got it because Bray can do no wrong.

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It’s good.

At times it’s slow. The story is simple and not a bad listen. It’s free!

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