Imminent Crisis (Mechwarrior) (Mechwarrior, 6)

by Randall N. Bills

Book Overview

As Princess Katrina and her brother vie for power, Leftenant Colonel Grayson Addison and his Fusiliers support neither, walking a dangerous line between life and death. But when an invading army lands... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451458729
• ISBN13: 9780451458728
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Ace
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.5" x 0.8" x 4.0"

Customer Reviews

Peace doesnt come easy

WHEN a leader of a large fraction of people in the Fed comm openly defies Katrina to keep peace Katrina sends troops to despose of him. Now he has to enter the war to keep peace in his relm. This is a very good book it kept me reading. I rely like the part when katrina tries to buy some mercs.But anyone whos anyone will like this book

Jacob's Review

When it comes to the issue of taking sides in a civil war that has engulfed the entire Federated Commonwealth, Grayson Addison is an undecided man. For a while he and his Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers remain neutral in the bloody conflict. All of this changes however, when troops under the command of Archon-Princess Katherine Steiner-Davion invade his home planet of New Syrtis. Grayson is forced to take action. He can no longer sit on the sidelines and watch the war unfold because now it has come to him.This book is fairly well written but the constant jumping from place to place and character to character sometimes confused me. However, the author provides good details and the plot was exciting making "Imminent Crisis" a worthwhile book to read. The news casts at the beginning of each chapter were also a nice touch. Those interested in the Mech Warrior series should definitely read this book.

Good book, wrong forum

First let me say, I thought this was a very good book. I think it would have been better placed under the Battletech line of novels, as it encompassed a long time frame and had many different characters. The Mechwarrior series previous to this, focused around one primary character in each book. The "primary" character, Grayson Addison, appears at the beginning and at the end. The rest of the book deals with Duke Hasek, his long time friend/sudden wife, Victor ally Ardan Sortek, Steiner marshalls, etc., etc. Still, good book, good read.

A great story line

After several mediocre books in both the Mechwarrior line and the Battletech line, it is about time we got a goodie. After making the reader believe there were only 2 sides in the Victor/Katherine fight, we now know here is is a gray area in between. This book has a good flow, enough character development and rockin mech skirmishes. All of the intrigue and action made this book a pleasure to read!

Great book!

Finally a good story about the Fedcom civil war after a long series of unreleated events in other mechwarrior books. This book adopted the "news cast" from the Pardo's battletech books, and help the reader keep up with current events. It seems Prince Victor is finally winning the war, but with great cost to both the people and the military of FedCom, and the thing bother me the most about this book is the blindness of many of the Fedcom citizen and military units in supporting Kathrine Steiner.It seems the once mighty Fedcom will take many years to rebuild. in just reading the book i have counted more than 20 Regimental combat teams destroyed in the war. not counting the unit already destroyed and mercenary regiments employed by both sides. and the war is still not over...with New Avalon still in Kathrine's hand and 9 RCTs garrison it. I am saddend by the lost of so many famous units, and also angry at Victor for leaving his people to fight the clans when they need him the most otherwise none of the would have happend, but i guess this is the only way more books can be written about battletech. finally it seems the clans are on the moves again. one thing you will learn reading the "news cast".