Deze auteur wordt gevierd om zijn meeslepende verkenningen van militaire fictie en sciencefiction, gekenmerkt door zorgvuldig onderzoek en een talent voor levendige, actievolle verhalen. Hij creëert ingewikkelde werelden waar thema's als moed, technologische vooruitgang en menselijke veerkracht voorop staan. Zijn onderscheidende proza dompelt lezers onder in intense scenario's, en biedt een mix van speculatieve toekomsten en gegrond realisme. Naast zijn schrijven verrijken zijn artistieke vaardigheden de meeslepende kwaliteit van zijn verhalen verder.
When Colonel Jon Streicher leads his team of men and Bolos in a planetary invasion against Caern and the Aetryx, a group of mysterious beings, they find themselves caught in a trap, stranded in the midst of a battle against an immortal foe. Reprint.
The Price of Glory, by William H. Keith, Jr., is the third book of the Saga of the Gray Death Legion. An established mercenary command by now, the Gray Death Legion suddenly find themselves framed for atrocious war crimes and in the end forge an unlikely cooperation with their old nemesis, Duke Hassid Ricol.
The Mercenary Code was broken by the Gray Death Legion during their desperate fighting on the planet Caledonia. At least, that is the ruling of the courts. And the judges decide to hit below the belt - Grayson Carlyle, revered leader of the now outlawed mercenary band, is stripped of his title and holdings, and the legion is banished from Glengarry, the planet they've called home for years.All seems lost, but Carlyle and his legendary troop of hardened warriors know they've been set up - and they have a trump card yet to play. Their dangerous scheme just might work, with the help of House Steiner - and enough guts and firepower to restore the name of the mighty Gray Death Legion to its rightful place of honor. But should they fail, they could lose a great deal more than their reputation...
TYRANNY. REBELLION. WAR. Treachery, tribulation, and a relentless slide into the bloody jaws of Armageddon! Insurrection sweeps through the fragmenting Federated Commonwealth, pitting Steiner against Davion forces, and civilians against their petty oppressors. On Caledonia, it's no different—except that the mercenary Gray Death Legion is caught in the middle of it all. Alex Carlyle, haunted by the gruesome specter of war, and Davis McCall, a veteran legionnaire and native Caledonian, unexpectedly find themselves key players in a popular revolt against a cruel and despised Davion-backed governor. When the Gray Death Legion is called upon to put down this very rebellion, they all find themselves pawns in a deadly game of manipulation and betrayal. But Grayson Carlyle, tactician supreme and founder of the Legion, is bound by the highest duty—to protect civilization from self-destruction, no matter what the odds or price....
On a training flight, Major Vincent Pirelli's damaged fighter is sent spinning into deep space. Is he dead, or did RAM forces pick him up for interrogation? To find out, NEO agent Jovanna Trask must assemble a mismatched team of pirates, spies and commandos to raid the RAM military base on Phobos.