BattleTech: The Spider Dances (Proliferation Cycle #6): BattleTech Novella

By Jason Schmetzer

THEIR MISSION: ACQUIRE BATTLEMECH PLANS, NO MATTER THE COST...

The Spider Dances is the sixth of six BattleTech novellas detailing the struggle to create the next awesome weapon to rule the battlefield—the BattleMech.

There are three ways to accomplish a difficult objective: Be first. Be smarter. Or cheat.

The Intelligence Directorate of the Capellan Confederation, otherwise known as the Maskirovka, is well-versed in all three. But when the first two methods do not achieve the desired results, they have no problem resorting to the last one.

And when the covert team gains the plans they are willing to die for, that resolve will be tested to the limit as they try to escape the Free Worlds League planet they have infiltrated, matching wits with one of the most feared intelligence officers the FWL has to offer...
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Catalyst Game Labs
• Release date: Sep 22, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393391784

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