Mercenary's Star
by William H. Keith
BattleTech: The Saga of the Gray Death Legion (02), BattleTech (DE) (2), BattleTech Novel Reading Order (03 (Gray Death Legion 02)), BattleTech (CAT36024)
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BACKS AGAINST THE WALL...Galatea: the Mercenary's Star. Even the most down on their luck units can find work here. Leading the newly-formed Gray Death Legion is proving to be a hard task for Grayson Death Carlyle, so when a job comes their way, he is only too happy to take it.
The job: train the local resistance on the planet Verthandi to resist their Draconis Combine masters. But things do not go well almost from the moment the Legion arrives at Verthandi. Trapped on the planet and facing show more a numerically superior force and a fractured populace, the men and women of the Legion find themselves in a situation that makes the campaign on Trellwan look like a walk in the park. And Grayson may find that repeating his successes of the past may not be so easy this time…
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Showers An earlier book in the same series and by the same author. Tells of the adventure that leads to the formation of the Gray Death Legion from Mercenary's Star
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Guns, guts and glory. This series is like bread. You'll read it when there isn't much else on your reading plate. So far the Gray Death Legion books are all in the same vein and I suspect they'll continue to be.
1 for the scene featuring a spilled Agromech screaming "should I punch out sir?" and the Dervish behind correcting the CO that he had no hands to help.
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153+ Works 9,430 Members
William H. Keith Jr., William H. Keith Jr. has written over sixty novels dealing with the theme of war. Keith was in the Navy during the Vietnam war as a hospital corpsman, which gave him the personal experience with which to write his novels. Writting under the pseudonym 'H. Jay Riker,' Keith produced the "SEALS: The Warrior Breed" series, a show more family drama encompassing the history of Navy UDT and the SEALS from World War II to present say. Under the pseudonym 'Ian Douglas,' Keith wrote a military science fiction series which follows the course of U.S. Marines in the future show less
Series
BattleTech: The Saga of the Gray Death Legion
8 works (02)
BattleTech (DE)
62 works (2)
BattleTech Novel Reading Order
101 works (03 (Gray Death Legion 02))
BattleTech
123 works (CAT36024)
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- Canonical title
- Mercenary's Star
- Original title
- Mercenary's Star
- Alternate titles
- BattleTech Legends: Mercenary's Star; BattleTech: Mercenary's Star
- Original publication date
- 1987-05
- People/Characters
- Grayson Death Carlyle; Gunnar Ericksson; Devic Erudin; Lori Kalmar; Sue Ellen Klein; Ilse Martinez (show all 8); Masayoshi Nagumo; James Thorvald
- Important places
- Verthandi (Draconis Combine); Galatea (Lyran Commonwealth)
- First words
- Those who have never seen a BattleMech up close can never comprehend the raw power and mechanical precision of these ten-meter tall, armored giants.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Always.
- Publisher's editor
- Ippolito, Donna
- Original language
- English
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 813.5
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- Members
- 240
- Popularity
- 134,897
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.54)
- Languages
- English, German, Hungarian
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 8
- ASINs
- 3
