And he is protected, not only by his custom-fitted body armor, but by an odd being which seems to live within him, a cold killing machine he calls ' The Engine.' This is Felix's storya story of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat, and the story, too, of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. But he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monstersthe fighting arm of a species which uses biological technology to design perfect, mindless war minions. A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic powered battle fortress. Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Bansheethe culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers' craft. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. The air is unbreathable, the water is poisonous.

The military sci-fi classic of courage on a dangerous alien planetThe planet is called Banshee.

Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Bansheethe culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers' craft. A futuristic Mechanized Infantryman survives impossible odds against an unrelenting alien race for an uncaringmilitary.

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