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Fair warning the second book first follows a different character for a while as the plot builds up, before Croaker gets involved. Just so you know.

What in Hood Balls do private owners need belt fed and suppressors for? I mean other than to give kids who lose it and go shoot up their school something new to play with.

I will never understand US love of guns.

A few days an ambulance got attacked by angry villagers. The driver got glass shards in his eye when a brick was thrown at the front window. The villagers were armed with axes and out for blood. Why all this? Because some git saw on TikTok that a black ambulance was stealing kids - this is an old myth from the Communist era and it keeps popping up like a bad rash. And the word quickly spread in the village, with no evidence of course of anything, so the ambulance that was wandering around trying to find the house of the patient who called for them was obviously there for nefarious reasons. 7 people were arrested over this idiocy. Their defense? "We heard a rumor" - that's it. The mother of one of them? She says the ambulance guys should have their organs removed, how dare they steal children - she said even after being told none of what she heard was true.

I live in a country of morons. Of people who buy Russian propaganda (we have people in the Army who look up to Russia ffs). Now with AI pictures and videos being easy to make it's gonna be worse. The idiots will believe anything and everything. Last week they were screaming that the French are draining the Danube. Then it was the Germans and Austrians. Why? Because of random internet trolls/bots/hybrid warfare.

It is depressing to see this level of idiocy on a daily basis. I work with people who were impressed by Calin Georgerscu's speaches. The ones where he claimed that water holds information and drinking bottled water is bad because it disrupts the flow of information. That getting a cesarean is bad because it breaks the holy bond between mother and child. And so on and so forth.

Maybe the anti-corruption stuff was going too well. That's the fastest way to upset someone in politics.

Yeah so you see what about this book bothers people. It's OOC, gross and utterly stupid. I'm glad stuff was salvaged from this book and made into cool things, I just wish the Gun of Command wasn't a thing. Heck even the X-Wing series took from this book, the entire Wraith squadron trilogy was made as a prequel to this book, dealing with the conflict with Warlord Zsinj.