The Road to Damascus
 Keith
Laumer’s Bolos are Back
—and New York Times Best-Selling
Author John Ringo has Signed on
with the Bolo Brigade!
When a ruthless political regime seizes power on a world struggling to
recover from alien invasion, a former war hero finds herself leading a
desperate band of freedom fighters. Kafari Khrustinova, who fought Deng
infantry from farmhouses and barns, finds herself struggling to free her
homeworld from an unholy political alliance, headed by the charismatic and
ambitious Vittori Santorini, which has seduced her young daughter with its
propaganda and subverted the planet’s Bolo, using the war machine to crush
all political opposition. To free her homeworld, Kafari must somehow
cripple or kill the Bolo she once called friend. Unit SOL-0045, “Sonny,”
is a Mark XX Bolo, self-aware and intelligent. When Sonny’s human
commander is forced off-world, Sonny tries to navigate his way through
ambiguous moral and legal issues, sinking into deep confusion and
electronic misery. He eventually faces a dark night of the soul, with no
guarantee that he will understand—let alone make—the right decision. And
caught in the middle of this volatile battlefield is Yalena Khrustinova,
Kafari’s young daughter. Will she open her eyes in time to save
herself—and millions of innocents—or will Santorini’s relentless
brainwashing campaign continue to blind her while the tyrant engineers the
ultimate destruction of a helpless and enslaved population?
Praise for the
Science Fiction of John Ringo
“MARVELOUS!” —David
Weber
“As much action as you
could hope for. . . . And then there’s that quirky sense of humor running
like a vein of gold under the mayhem.” —Eric Flint
“Explosive. . . . Fans
of strong military SF will appreciate Ringo’s lively narrative and
flavorful characters. . . . One of the best new practitioners of military
SF.” —Publishers Weekly
“. . . since [Ringo’s]
imagination, clearly influenced by Kipling and rock and roll, is fertile,
and his storytelling skill sound, [When the Devil Dances] is
irresistible.” —Booklist
“[Ringo demonstrates a]
flair for fast-paced military sf peopled with three-dimensional characters
and spiced with personal drama as well as tactical finesse.” —Library
Journal
“If Tom Clancy were
writing SF, it would read much like John Ringo . . . good reading with
solid characterizations—a rare combination.” —Philadelphia Weekly Press
“Ringo provides a
textbook example of how a novel in the military SF subgenre should be
written. . . . For those who have read everything David Drake has written
or who may have wished that Tom Clancy, Larry bond or Harold Coyle would
write SF, Ringo provides what’s needed. . . .Crackerjack storytelling.”
—Starlog
Cover art by David Mattingly
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