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* Joel Rosenberg's ''Metzada'' series has a planet of [[Space Jews]] whose only valuable export is mercenary services; which sucks, because their ancestors were exiled to an un[[terraform]]ed planet, and they must constantly import food and air, which is rather pricey. So they'll take any work they can get, even if they utterly hate their clients.
* The tie-in novels based on the original ''[[Mutant Chronicles]]'' games had "free-lancers" who performed everything from bounty hunting to corporate espionage. The armies of the [[Mega Corp]]s are technically PMCs, but since corporations are the closest thing to governments left in that universe, they function more like national armies... with [[Executive Meddling]] in the form of company agents who go along on missions to enforce corporate protocol and the bottom line.
* [[Elizabeth Moon]]'s ''[[The Deed of Paksenarrion]]'' novel series has the title character run away from home to join a mercenary band. Although given that the 'band' in question are the household troops of a high-ranking nobleman, who supplements the income of his resource-poor demesne by hiring detachments of his troops out to warring city-states in another land, its more 'mercenaries' in the sense of the historical Swiss mercenaries than it is 'free company'.
** The ''[[Vatta's War]]'' series by the same author deals with these heavily, particularly the Mackensee Military Assistance Corporation whom Kylara Vatta, [[The Captain]], both hires and is hired by. The MMAC is depicted as being ''very'' strict in who they will do business with, with their contracts spelling out certain actions their employers might take where they will consider their contract terminated on the spot and withdraw immediately, in order to avoid any association with this trope's negative trappings.
* In Simon R. Green's ''[[Deathstalker]]'' books, the Families employ [[Mooks|hordes]] of these. A few of the main characters are ex-mercenaries, as well (and one of them is only helping overthrow the evil empire for the loot that will be in it for her if they succeed).
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* [[Chris Bunch]]'s [[Star Risk, Ltd.|Star Risk Ltd]] series is about a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] that operate a PMC that does mainly bodyguard and anti-piracy work. The company hires outside help (like [[Ace Pilot]] Redon Spada) when they need extra manpower.
** They also repeatedly butt heads with the much larger (and decidedly malevolent) PMC Cerberus Systems.
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