Armor
Author: Steakley, John
ISBN: 9780756417086
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 16 Mar 2021
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
Now in trade paperback, the bestselling military classic that explores a claustrophobic life in battle armor on an alien planet.
Now in trade paperback, the military sci-fi classic of courage on a dangerous alien planet.
The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.
Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee-the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers' craft. A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic powered battle fortress. But he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters-the fighting arm of a species which uses biological technology to design perfect, mindless war minions.
Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected, not only by his custom-fitted body armor, but by an odd being which seems to live within him, a cold killing machine he calls "The Engine."
This is Felix's story-a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat, and the story, too, of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
ISBN: 9780756417086
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 16 Mar 2021
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
Now in trade paperback, the bestselling military classic that explores a claustrophobic life in battle armor on an alien planet.
Now in trade paperback, the military sci-fi classic of courage on a dangerous alien planet.
The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.
Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee-the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers' craft. A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic powered battle fortress. But he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters-the fighting arm of a species which uses biological technology to design perfect, mindless war minions.
Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected, not only by his custom-fitted body armor, but by an odd being which seems to live within him, a cold killing machine he calls "The Engine."
This is Felix's story-a story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat, and the story, too, of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
