Overkill

At twenty-three, Jazen Parker has completed his Legion hitch a hero.�But in four months, he'll have a price on his head.�Worse, he's lost his past, and he can't find his future.� Unfortunately for Jazen, he's chosen to search for them on one of the deadliest planets known to mankind.

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�When Jazen reluctantly hires on to a Trueborn Earthman tycoon's safari to bag a deadly trophy, the reluctant mercenary finds himself�consigned to an outpost at the end of the universe known to everyone except its tourism bureau as Dead End. When the hunt goes terribly wrong, Jazen must survive a tough, beautiful local guide who hates mercenaries, an eleven ton beast that can crush main battle tanks with one claw tied behind its back, and the return of a nightmare that has haunted Jazen since birth.

About Overkill:��

��Jazen] Parker develops into. . .not just a mercenary, but a young man forced into a life he never would have chosen, now faced with choices that will affect humanity. . .Overkill is a solid, surprising science fiction novel.����I>Guilded Earlobe Review

About Robert Buettner:��

��uettner goes well beyond . . . military science fiction . . . he understands . . . living as a soldier ��the boredom punctuated by terror, the constant anxiety and self-doubt, the random chaos that battle always is, and the emotional glue that holds together people who may have nothing in common except absolute responsibility for one another's lives.����oe Haldeman, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author

��O]nce in a while . . . a contemporary author penetrates to the heart of Heinlein's vision . . . to replicate the master's effects. . . . [O]ne such book [is] Robert Buettner's Orphanage.����I>The Washington Post

��uettner shows the Heinlein touch.����I>Denver Post