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| Novel Information |
| Collection: |
BattleTech |
| Title: |
Dagger Point |
| Author: |
Thomas S. Gressman |
| ISBN-10: |
0-451-45783-8 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-451-45783-7 |
| Publisher: |
Roc |
| Product ID: |
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| Copyright: |
© 2000 |
| Cover Art: |
©2024 Catalyst Game Labs |
| Description: |
Edwin Amis, new commander of the Eridani Light Horse, faces a tough decision: Should he openly defy the First Lord of the Star League? Sun-Tzu Liao, the First Lord, has sent Star League troops as "peace-keepers" to the St. Ives Compact to prevent open rebellion by angry citizens—but they`re not seeking peace.
Amis knows the mission is only a guise for reclaiming territory for the Capellan Confederation, and he`s ready to station counter-forces on Milos, close to the heart of the Capellan capital. But on Milos, things are already escalating—Death Commando Chen Shao and his ruthless partner, Nessa Ament, have secretly murdered a dissident`s family in cold blood. Now, in what could erupt into full-scale war, both forces are at each other`s throats... |
| First Chapter Date: |
July 15, 3061 |
| Final Chapter Date: |
March 22, 3062 |
| Number of Reviews: 2 |
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| Average Member Rating: 2.00 |
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Member Review - StarRaven : 26-Oct-2004 00:00 |
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0 out of 0 users (0.00%) have found this review useful
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0.50 |
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::sigh:: Gressman. There's not much more to say. For me, Gressman has become synonymous with "two-demensional characters," along with a number of other things which make a bad book. This is a must read if you enjoy bashing your head against a wall, or other such fun activities. The chaacters are again flat, with little emotion. Oh yes, they go through the motions, they fight and they kill. But they feel nothing; they don't hate or fear or cry or any of those things that humans do. Even the scene in the beginning, where Ament murders a man, his wife, and their baby, fails to conjure anything more than the most cursory emotions in the characters or the reader. There's no passion in this book, no fire. The characters trudge through their duties, and the reader simultaneously trudges through the pages. And what happened to the St. Ives geurillas. I swear that they just disappeared. No one killed them, yet after a while, they never did anything. Like they just disappeared. It's a bad sign when secondary characters are jumping ship to get away from the book. |
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Member Review - Bo : 02-Mar-2004 00:00 |
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3.50 |
| Comment: |
If you like the Eridani Light Horse, then this is a must read for you. If you want hate Sun-Tzu Liao, then this would be a good read. Another good BT book over all.
The mech on mech battles are fewer compared to other books. In exchange you get more personal type interaction. You get to see how the media controls the population, regardless who are the good guys and who are the bad.
One plot hole I came across – I could have missed some detail somewhere – was what happened to the resistance fighters allied with St. Ives? They were operating close to 2 lances and just dropped out one third of the way into the book.
Decent book but not Gressman’s better works.
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