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Mercenary Salvage Company by James Haddock is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Countries then worlds no longer kept large standing armies. They preferred to hire mercenaries, spending their citizens money rather than their citizens lives. Governments found it more cost-effective to keep their populations working, continuing to pay taxes rather than dying on some battlefield. War became a business. As in times of old, owning a mercenary company became a way for the ordinary man to become wealthy . . . if he survived.Dad and I own the Cain Salvage Company. Some call us carrion living off the carcass of war. Buzzards picking the bones of the war machines left behind on cold battlefields. I suppose thats one way to look at it, but they still bought our salvage.No one is immune to the effects of war. Except maybe the rich or corrupt, who are often are the same people. Liquid fuel is expensive and hard to get, so local farmers contracted us to salvage a nuclear-pellet-powered electric vehicle that would run for years before needing to be refueled. It was a good deal; rather than cash, wed receive a percentage of the farmers crops for ten years to sell or eat as we needed.Nowhere is completely safe, especially around the battlefield, cold or not. I felt the proof as

Author
James Haddock
Publisher
Matron Publishing LLC
Published
2022
Language
EN