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A Desert Called Peace: Copyright ┬й 2007 by Tom Kratman

A Baen Book

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

ISBN 10: 1-4165-2145-3
ISBN 13: 978-1-4165-2145-7

Cover art by Kurt Miller

First Baen printing, September 2007

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
t/k

Printed in the United States of America
Solitudinum faciunt; pacem appellant
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Dedication:
For Oriana Fallaci, who had more sheer balls тАУ and infinitely more wisdom тАУ than nearly any man
on the planet.
And for my comrades, CSM Joshua McIntosh and 1SGs Epolito Martinez and Chris Coffin. Miss
you guys. Save me a spot, huh?
Dear Reader:
You can take this book as a commentary on the somewhat cyclic nature of history, if you want.
("History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.") You can take it as a commentary on the endless war
between the Christian or secular West and Islam, if you want. You can take it as a critique of the
phenomenon of monocultural planets that dominate science fiction, if you want.
If it pleases you, you can look at it as a cautionary tale on choosing one's enemies well . . . because
you are going to become much like them or because they're going to become much like you. If you're of
a legalistic mindset, you can think of it as a lengthy commentary on the law of war. If you loath
transnational progressivism, surely there is something here for you.
The one thing you must never do, though, it to think of it as a commentary on the current war or the
leadership thereof.
Unless, that is, you want to.
Tom Kratman

Prologue
They called him "the Blue Jinn." He took a small and perverse pride in the title. Blue jinni were evil