Hammer’s Slammers Books in Order

These linked stories follow Colonel Alois Hammer's mercenary tank regiment through wars on distant planets. Soldiers operating armored vehicles face the violence of paid warfare, where survival, orders and political interests often pull them in conflicting directions.

Hammer's Slammers are hired to support human colonists against an uprising by the planet's native inhabitants. Their superior weapons seem decisive, but the opposing fighters can teleport, undermining the mercenaries' assumptions about how to win the conflict.

Hammer's Slammers face a war on two fronts while trying to preserve civilian authority against religious extremists. The mercenaries' task demands more than battlefield success, as military necessity collides with the political order they are employed to defend.

Captain Ranson leads an improvised force of recruits and veterans across three hundred miles of enemy-held territory. In the midst of a major offensive, the soldiers must keep moving and fighting despite the dangers confronting their armored column.

Colonel Hammer and his mercenary soldiers face a conflict that threatens to become a bloodbath. This volume combines the title story with Liberty Port, following members of the regiment through the pressures and violence of their profession.

Two rival criminal syndicates prepare for a devastating war on Cantilucca, a planet ruled by violence and the drug trade. A small survey team from Hammer's Slammers arrives to assess the situation and possible military intervention.

Lieutenant Arne Huber leads a combat-car platoon after a tariff dispute erupts into war on Plattner's World. The Slammers' assignment becomes increasingly dangerous as rival factions and investors exploit the conflict for power and profit.

This collection gathers Hammer's Slammers short fiction alongside material explaining the mercenary regiment's equipment and organization. Soldiers face difficult decisions in battle and peace, including the previously uncollected story A Death in Peacetime.

Four Hammer's Slammers novels follow professional mercenaries through violent assignments and conflicts within their own ranks. Collecting At Any Price, Counting the Cost, Rolling Hot, and The Warrior, this volume examines the human costs of military service.

This volume collects The Sharp End, Paying the Piper, and the novella The Darkness. Hammer's mercenaries confront criminal rule and profitable wars, weighing their professional obligations against the damage their employers and military decisions inflict.