BattleTech Legends: Double Blind

De: Loren L. Coleman

Narrado por: Brian Kozak, Charlie K. James

HIT AND RUN...

Using fast and furious hit-and-run tactics, Marcus GioAvanti and his Avanti's Angels mercenaries have earned a tough reputation throughout the Inner Sphere. But the Inner Sphere isn't where their newest job is taking them—because their latest employer resides in that remote and mysterious region of space known as the Periphery...

The Magistracy of Canopus has been the target of aggression by the Marian Hegemony, and in hiring Marcus and his gutsy band of can-do commandos, it hopes to retaliate. But the fact that the Canopians are armed with technology considered rare in the Periphery is the least of Marcus's problems.

Marcus and his "Angels" will have to face the real force behind the hostilities—the religious cult known as the Word of Blake. And this fanatical group has a scheme deadly enough to destroy even the amazing Avanti's Angels...

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Great politics, great action, and incredible insight to the effectiveness of infantry versus mechs

This is a great story highlighting all my favorite factions - WoBbies; Canopus; Liao. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Great book and narration!

The book is great and the narrators are great, more of this please the battle tech universe really comes alive while listening.

Classic Battletech Story

Great to finally have an unabridged version of this. The abridged version I had previously would have been incomprehensible if I hadn't read the physical book!

Please, please, please bring out unabridged versions of the other butchered books. I'd love to listen to the Kerensky trilogy that introduced the Clans

This book is a wonderfully complex story with lots of political double dealing interspersed with some great action scenes. A great romp through the Inner Sphere and beyond!

Great story, great performance

Loved this book from way back and it still holds up. Performance was very good, one or two moments where I could hear a click at the end of a segment, like they had finished reading and were clicking a button to stop recording. But very minor thing, good job you two!

Fantastic telling of this story

It's always sounds better when a woman read the women's parts and a man read the men's part.

Sooo much better than the abridged version!

Narration was great - they did their homework and nailed the many BT pronunciations. It allowed the story to really shine this time!

By Kerensky give these narrators a pronunciation sheet

These narrators seem like decent voice actors but for the love of an urbanmech can you give them a sheet showing how to pronounce things? Listening to them butcher St. Jamais (SAINT JA MAY ISS!) is like listening to your boomer white dad order Mexican food and try to pronounce Huevos Rancheros. They also call Kai: Kay at least once and Atreus is pronounced like the main characters name in never ending story.

Anyway the story of double blind was always one of my favorites. Marcus is a pretty run of the mill merc leader, but the real interest (as in most btech novels) is the politics behind the scenes and causing the action. The scrappy little merc company gets in too deep to plots way bigger than themselves and has to make their way out.

If you can swallow the cringe of the mispronunciation it’s a good story.