BattleTech: Gray Death Rising: (A BattleTech Collection)

by Jason Schmetzer

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH…Former hauptmann Ronan Carlyle and his sister Isobel are soldiers without a nation. After their commanding officer left the Lyran Commonwealth Armed Forces entirely, the pair returned to Lyran space for reassignment. But their senior officer branded the remaining troops traitors and cashiered them, stranding hundreds of former LCAF soldiers and technicians. With nothing but a local salvage yard to their name, the Carlyle kids hit upon a way to at least get their people off-planet and back home. So, out of desperation, the Gray Death Legion is reborn. But soon, what was supposed to be a temporary mercenary unit turns into something entirely different…a real mercenary unit.THE TOUGH GO MERCENARY.Gray Death Rising chronicles the new Gray Death Legion’s early missions. From their very first job—working for the same unit that kicked them out of the LCAF—to their next job off-planet, to their biggest mission yet, facing political intrigue and taking on the mantle of their famous great-grandfather’s legacy on the planet of Pandora in a brand-new story.In the cutthroat mercenary world of the Inner Sphere, it takes more than a famous name to survive. Fortunately, Ronan and Bel have the training, intelligence, and most importantly, experience to carry their family’s legacy into a new era. And collected here for the first time, read where it all begins…again.

347 pages, Paperback

Published January 18, 2024

Reviews

[Ben Shouse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome additional story to the anthology.

I had already read the previous two novellas for the unit. I been a fan of the GDL from the beginning. Thought they got a bad deal in The Dying Time. These new tales show what Grayson's an Lori's descendants are capable of, in various domains within the IS. I still have a regiment of mechs, vehicles an aerospace fighters painted as GDL. Now, I am gonna paint some MDA mechanism an vehicles in their colours... Cannot wait to read more on them, and maybe a little bit on what happened to Alexander Carlyle after the FedCom Civil War.

[Tim Gray · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was delighted (to my own surprise) to be reading about the Gray Death again. Will be much more exciting for those of us who have that feeling of coming back home!