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BattleTech: If Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot…: A Kell Hounds Story, #4
NEVER BET AGAINST THE KELL BROTHERS…
Since their first appearance in the Warrior Trilogy, the Kell Hounds have become one of the most storied mercenary units in BattleTech. Now, New York Times-bestselling author and Kell Hounds creator Michael A. Stackpole goes back to the Hounds’ beginnings, when Morgan and Patrick Kell were just two smart, ambitious brothers—with a plan to revolutionize the world of mercenaries forever…
A RACE AGAINST TIME…
If Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot…: Fresh off saving Prince Ian Davion of the Federated Suns, Morgan Kell returns home to find his paramour, Veronica Matova, has vanished without a trace. Desperate to find her, Morgan tasks the Hounds to track her down—and uncovers a conspiracy to destroy the Kell Hounds’ reputation using Veronica as a hostage.
While Morgan races against time to locate her, Patrick engages in a dangerous game cat-and-mouse with their unknown adversaries, pulling every trick in the book to stay one step ahead of whoever wants to take the Kell Hounds down. But these shadowy enemies don’t realize who they’re dealing with…and no force in the Inner Sphere will help them once Morgan Kell finds them…
Since their first appearance in the Warrior Trilogy, the Kell Hounds have become one of the most storied mercenary units in BattleTech. Now, New York Times-bestselling author and Kell Hounds creator Michael A. Stackpole goes back to the Hounds’ beginnings, when Morgan and Patrick Kell were just two smart, ambitious brothers—with a plan to revolutionize the world of mercenaries forever…
A RACE AGAINST TIME…
If Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot…: Fresh off saving Prince Ian Davion of the Federated Suns, Morgan Kell returns home to find his paramour, Veronica Matova, has vanished without a trace. Desperate to find her, Morgan tasks the Hounds to track her down—and uncovers a conspiracy to destroy the Kell Hounds’ reputation using Veronica as a hostage.
While Morgan races against time to locate her, Patrick engages in a dangerous game cat-and-mouse with their unknown adversaries, pulling every trick in the book to stay one step ahead of whoever wants to take the Kell Hounds down. But these shadowy enemies don’t realize who they’re dealing with…and no force in the Inner Sphere will help them once Morgan Kell finds them…
227 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 27, 2023
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February 12, 2024
While still a decent read, this wasn't one of the stronger pieces of BattleTech fiction out there. My biggest gripes had to do with how Veronica Matova had been characterized as she initially felt a bit like a caricature and ended up being buffeted around by the plot. In the first part of the book she was strong despite her abduction and chose to end every chapter with an internal promise to get revenge on her captors. But given the brevity of the book, we fast-forward to later in the book when she was supposedly broken and she somehow loses her sense of sense...and yet it also feels like she hasn't?
More than a little confusing there.
More than a little confusing there.
January 27, 2024
Terrible ending
Love the Kell Hounds, happy to see another installment. Didn't really do it for me, too much treachery and long winded backstabbing. What happened to the hearts of Mechwarriors written novels.....
Love the Kell Hounds, happy to see another installment. Didn't really do it for me, too much treachery and long winded backstabbing. What happened to the hearts of Mechwarriors written novels.....
March 15, 2026
Best of the Kell Hounds stories
Stackpole really brings the personality into Battletech. This 4th novella has me really hoping for a 5th. I didn't see the ending coming.
Stackpole really brings the personality into Battletech. This 4th novella has me really hoping for a 5th. I didn't see the ending coming.
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