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  • BattleTech Legends: Decision at Thunder Rift

  • The Gray Death Legion Saga, Book 1
  • By: William H. Keith Jr.
  • Narrated by: Tren Sparks
  • Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (101 ratings)
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By: William H. Keith Jr.
Narrated by: Tren Sparks
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Summary

The epic first novel of the legendary science-fiction series.

Thirty meters tall, 70 tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the frontline forces of the crumbling star empire locked in the horror of the endless Succession Wars. Their pilots are MechWarriors, 31st-century knights riding armored machines powerful enough to take a city apart.

Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was 10 years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected. With his friends and family dead and his father's regiment destroyed, young Grayson finds himself stranded on a world turned hostile. Now he must learn the hardest lesson of all: It takes more than a BattleMech to make a MechWarrior....

But to claim that title, all Grayson has to do is go out and capture one of those giant killing machines...if it doesn't kill him first.

About BattleTech:

Decision at Thunder Rift is one of the first of more than 90 novels set in the BattleTech universe, a 31st-century setting of constant war between planets, nations, and peoples. A ‘Mech is a 12-meter-tall, 100-ton walking war machine. Only another ‘Mech can face one. Mercenary armies battle for pay, for honor, and for causes innumerable.

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Great!

My first foray into Battletech fiction did not disappoint! Great story with a great narration.

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enjoyable story but nothing groundbreaking.

Good book but you can predict a number of things just be cause you know there is more books. narrators is good and did a decent job doing multiple parts.

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Great book of the BT universe

Enjoyed this book, hope the narrator does the other stories around The Gray Death Legion

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Solid Mechwarrior stuff

Nicely written mech battle story, understanding the background material. Not really that convoluted plot, but great romp of action, just what you would want. Read enthusiastically and clearly with character.

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Great book, great narration.

The story is great and the narration is fantastic.
Great book. Give us more battletech on Audible!

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a classic tale and brilliantly read.

it's been years since I first read the battle tech books and this was a great chance to get back into it, right from the start. it's such an amazing, almost timeless science fiction story with great intrigue, some good twists and some great action. I can't wait to get on to the next one in the narration was also really good.

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More more more

Put all of the old batteltech books on audible, I will buy them all..take my money

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Entertaining for fans of the Battletech universe

An enjoyable tale of space opera heroics and the sort of dubious politicking for which the Inner Sphere is renowned.

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Quite solid

The planet is interesting, the intrigue is predictable but not bad, the politics are decent and the combat is pretty good.

Grayson Death Karlac begins as a whiny child, although he grows a fair bit, and is a likable protagonist at the ending. The ending was the best part of the novel, and I'll take up the rest of the trilogy.

A sidenote, are Kuritans of Russian descent?

PS. As. Tech, as in Assistant Tech, not Aztek.

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Fun start

The narrator does quite a good job, and the story is good enough to hook you. Will absolutely get the next book.

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