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Battletech 06: Decision at Thunder Rift: The Saga of the Gray Death Legion (Bk. 6)

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This book has a great plot and introduces wonderful characters that make you want to read many more books with them in it. A great read that i bet a first time B-tech reader would enjoy to the fullest!

William Keith is one of the best Battletech authors besides Robert Charette. His novels set in the 3025 era have laid the basis for our todays Battletech history.It is a must for every serious Battletech Gamer and worth reading for any others interested in Science Fiction."Decision.."is the best introduction in the Battletech Universe you can acquire. For generations of Battletech and Mechwarrior Game Masters it has served as pattern for their mercenary campaigns because it describes the birth and evolution of the historically most important merc company,the Gray Death Legion. This book provides atmosphere and depth unrivaled save by the "Blood of Kerensky" trilogy.

I have been playing mechwarrior for years now, but only recently have I started collecting the Battletech novels. The reason I started collecting is because of this book, the first one I'd read. Although the author seems to get bogged down in the beginning with minor details (which I admit helps out non-Battletech fans with some historical and technological background), it rapidly starts to gain momentum. I think what I found most gripping was the transformation the main character underwent; from spoiled 'son-of-Captain Carlyle' brat to someone who gets forced to apply his apprenticeship skills in combat, resulting in a very different person. The theme of owning your own destiny and leadership come strongly into play throughout. The book is virtually unstoppable after the half-way mark, and then William H. Keith drops the bombshell ending. He ended it so that you really needed to know what lay ahead for the Gray Death Legion, after all: You were there at the mercenary group's birth! Sure, there are some corny bits and a slowish start, but the rest of the book makes up for that in spades. Let's just say that after putting the book finally down I walked straight to the computer and started looking for Mercenary's Star...

If you are a fan of Battletech like I am you need to read this book. It is well written and the characters are engaging. There are some points where the hero's luck is beyond good, but that's why he's the hero.

A great introduction to a surprisingly hard science fiction universe that, giant robots aside, is very deeply grounded in modern technology. No aliens, artificial gravity or technobabble magic here. It's humans fighting humans.

By the standards of paperback science fiction where giant robots blast each other, this is one of the best and can serve as a great introduction to Batteltech. The focus is on the action and the setting and the people are painted in broad strokes that still manage to establish them give context to the fighting that makes up the bulk of the book.

this is an exellent battletech novel that gives a great look at pre-clan battletech. It is kind of slow towards the beginning but speeds up fast and really turns out great. highly recommended. when you buy this one you better go ahead and get mercenary's star and the price of glory cause you'll want to read them.

This book begins a long line of stories involving Grayson Death Carlyle. The story is well written and involves the reader in the intricacies of the inner sphere.

I read this book about four years ago thinking that it was just another sci-fi novel. I had finished the book 3 days later, and I was searching for another of the series. It was great! I've read all the novels of the Gray Death Series and am waiting for more.

Keith creates a world of violence and chaos, with a likeable young hero stranded on a planet torn by civil war. Characters are well drawn for an action story. There are well drawn male and female characters. I felt this book was more consistently interesting and better paced than Operation Excaliber, the only other of Keith's novels that I have read. For those who've enjoyed Decision at Thunder Rift, there are several other Battletech books which continue the adventures of the likeable young hero

This book is set thirty years before the clan invasion, with the main charter just finishing his mech training and seeing his father being killed for no reason. He gets left behind, starts a revoulation and fights off a bandit king from taking over a planet.