Felix is dropped on the Ants' home planet of Banshee after little more than six months training. This armor gives the wearer super human strength, speed, and reflexes. Each warrior in the Fleet is given custom fitted black Armor that can only be operated by the owner. When his wife dies in a tragic accident, Felix leaves his planet and signs up with the Fleet to fight with the rest of humanity against Ants. The Armor that Felix wears in battle will link the two struggles and change the lives of everyone involved.įelix is the born ruler of his home planet Golden.
Jack Crow, a well known rogue and thief, gets tangled in a plot of a ruthless space pirate to take control of an Earth-like planet called Sanction. Felix finds himself enlisted as a Fleet scout on a planet called Banshee to fight monstrous creatures known as Ants. 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.Armor, by John Steakley, depicts battles that engulf humanity in a war-torn future. 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." Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. 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.įelix is a scout in A-team Two.
A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic powered battle fortress. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered.īody 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.
The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous. The military sci-fi classic of courage on a dangerous alien planet
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