BattleTech: Danger Close (An Old Crows Story) by James D. Long

BWOOM, BWOOM, BWOOM…

The grizzled mercenaries of the Old Crows—except the one new guy—have seen just about everything there is to see in the Inner Sphere, and fought everything there is to fight. But their latest opponent may be their toughest challenge yet.

Hired to protect research facilities in the Taurian Concordat from marauding raiders, the mercenary lance finds itself coming under withering fire from long-range artillery. With no air support, but orders to take out the enemy artillery by any means necessary, the Old Crow mercs set out on a walk through hell…that none of them may survive…

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