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  • The Ramal Extraction

  • Cutter’s Wars, Book 1
  • By: Steve Perry
  • Narrated by: R.C. Bray
  • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (172 ratings)

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The Ramal Extraction

By: Steve Perry
Narrated by: R.C. Bray
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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.
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Critic reviews

"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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A bit of a gem here

More twists than an Alpine road, the book started off very well, with an excellent storyline.
the team seemed to get too good towards the end and lost some credibility, just wasn't necessary. Will be looking for more from this author. wonderfully read by RC Bray

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a good story

a good story with some decent characters, well paced and some not too obvious plot twists.
narration is pretty good although there seems to be a common theme in this production companies narrators to not be able to pronounce Maori as they all say may-ori rather than mau-ri which grate's after a while, a small whinge in a otherwise decent performance

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RC Bray and a good story

What more could you want.
This is a great book so go on, buy it!

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, and on book 2 already

Very clever and engaging. Yeah I only got because I'm a R. C. Bray fan, but story is really interesting. Most space opera's thave may Alien species, but really like the Vastalimi, Kay especially. But the but Rags whole team are fun to follow.

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Entertaining and good story

Characters appear to be getting their own personalities which is nice and all together a good listen, I will be listening to the next episode shortly.

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Ramal Extraction

Thoroughly enjoyed the book some twists and humour. Narrator as always brilliant. Recommend this to anyone.

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RC Bray and Steve Perry!

Great story and RC Bray never fails to perform. Enjoyed the whole series. Any more?

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Enjoyable mercenary tale

This is my first Steve Perry book and I must admit I thoroughly enjoyed it. In some ways its a difficult book to categorise, it's set on a different planet with high tech weapons and augmented humans so it feels SciFi. The plot however would work well in any setting as it's largely a political conspiracy. The daughter of the ruler is kidnapped and he employs a small group of mercenaries to track her down and initiate a rescue. What follows is a standard investigation, following down leads, pushing contacts for information, being side tracked by red herrings all of which could have been achieved without the SciFi elements. There are some interesting characters in the mercenary force (Cutter's Force Initiative) all of whom bring different skills to the group and from the banter it's obvious this is a well established team.
The story moves along at a good pace, with good action scenes, and whilst the dialogue won't be winning any awards it's fair to say it's standard military stuff one would expect in this kind of story. I will certainly look out for more of this series and possibly other stuff written by Perry.
As for the narrator, I have several books in my library read by RC Bray who I find one of the better Audible narrators particularly of the more action oriented novels, seeing a potential title is narrated by him is always a plus point for me

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Great story, Brilliant performance

The story had a slow start, and I did struggle to get into it, but had me gripped towards the end. Hard to say much without any spoilers.
RC Bray's narration just brilliant as always.

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surprisingly good

has a lot better quality characters and world building than most similar scifi. The first kill stories device was a little forced, but it played with it quite well

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