The Dying Time
by Thomas S. Gressman
MechWarrior Novels (5), BattleTech: The Saga of the Gray Death Legion (07), BattleTech Novel Reading Order (59 (Gray Death Legion 07)), BattleTech (DE) (57), BattleTech (LE5866)
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BACK INTO THE FRAY...Only days after the demise of legendary warrior Grayson Death Carlyle, the mercenary forces of the Gray Death Legion are called into action. Their mission is to protect Hesperus II in the Isle of Skye. With civil war raging, it is vital that the planet's famous Defiance BattleMech production facilities not fall into the hands of the enemy. Seeing the Lyrans and Davionists at each other's throats, the Skye separatists have seized the opportunity to instigate a new show more rebellion, and they too threaten the safety of Hesperus II and its factories.
Now commanding the Legion is Lori Carlyle, widow of Grayson. But what Lori doesn't realize is that her troops are little more than pawns in the continuing hostilities between the factions of Victor Steiner-Davion and his ever-cunning sister, Katrina—and that the Gray Death are about to enter a battle they are meant to lose.
If there is one constant in the universe, it is that pawns are made to be sacrificed...
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MechWarrior Novels
6 works (5)
BattleTech: The Saga of the Gray Death Legion
8 works (07)
BattleTech Novel Reading Order
101 works (59 (Gray Death Legion 07))
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- Canonical title
- The Dying Time
- Original title
- The Dying Time
- Alternate titles
- Mechwarrior: The Dying Time
- Original publication date
- 2002-01
- People/Characters
- Grayson Death Carlyle; Lori Kalmar (Lori Kalmar-Carlyle); Alexander Carlyle; Gina Ciampa; Rae Houk; Davis McCall (show all 90); Katherine Steiner-Davion; Nondi Steiner; Julio Vargas; Peter Zambos; Victor Steiner-Davion; Robert Kelswa-Steiner; Chris Wyndham; Alicia Savinson; Charles Bear; Hassan Ali Khaled; Richard Regis II; Rainer Poulin; Almida Zee; Tom Leone; Megan Powers; Daniel Brewer; Durant Carlyle; Hanse Davion; Melissa Steiner-Davion; Yvonne Steiner-Davion; Arthur Steiner-Davion; Sun-Tzu Liao; Hester Murad; James Goree; Samuel Quinn; Francisco de Argall; Don Nix; William Harrison von Frisch; Roger Karns; Joseph Cheng; Susan Levy; Thomas Devin; V. K. Kaufman; Lucy Sal; Dale Ross; Stanislau Stevens; Lisa Steiner (31st c.); Petar Warner; Ari Graves; Leo Moos; Carla Staedler; Andrei Denniken; Anson Towsley; Mick Cornwell; Nana Brennan; Dieter Bern; Geron Speer; Patrick Garrity; Elias Whitlocke; Louis Weatherby; Edmond Caine; Diggsby Strieger-Pouls; Ivan Steiner; Amanda Carroll; John Monty; Keith Williams; Bob Johnston; Saul Dietrich; Jason Batsa; Dallas MacKensie; Preston Minh; Phil Bertrand; Livia Lassiter; Marty Cross; Valdis Koll; Gene Deloray; Paul Hansen; Marion Warner; Fal McNab; Brian Scully; William McBride; Gregg Sweney; Sarah Trotter; Joan Monti; Elena Cerlenko; Roy Bartlett; John Dundee; Elron David; Christine Wellerman; Leigh Cooper; Alice Day; Morgan Graham; Michael Taylor; Jason Fry
- Important places
- New Avalon (Crucis March, Federated Suns); Glengarry (Skye Province, Lyran Alliance); Hesperus II (Skye Province, Lyran Alliance); Tharkad (Lyran Alliance); Skye (Lyran Alliance); Thorin (Lyran Alliance) (show all 18); Trell I (Lyran Commonwealth); New Caledonia (Lyran Alliance); Coventry (Lyran Alliance); Terra; Milos (Capellan Confederation); St. Ives (St. Ives Compact); Buena (Lyran Alliance); Freedom (Lyran Alliance); Verthandi (Draconis Combine); Alkaid (Lyran Alliance); Huntress (Clan Homeworlds); Lost (Lyran Alliance)
- Important events
- FedCom Civil War; Third Skye Rebellion
- Dedication
- This book is gratefully dedicated to Donna Ippolito.
Donna, you've done an awful lot of work behind the scenes, to make this book, and many others better than I could have done myself. Through your prompting, questions, an... (show all)d suggestions, you've helped make me a better writer.
Thank you for your efforts, your dedication, and your friendship. - First words
- General of the Armies of the Lyran Alliance, Nondi Steiner watched her niece as the younger woman keyed a few notes into the noteputer sitting atop her desk.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"If he survives."
- Publisher's editor
- Ippolito, Donna
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.5
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