Iron Legion Battlebox by David Ryker, Daniel Morgan (#1-4)
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Overview: James ‘Red’ Maddox was born in a cloning tube for one purpose: to work. That’s all his life offers, just the prospect of decades of back-breaking labor until he dies.
That’s until a Federation dropship touches down on Genesis-526. Suddenly hard labor doesn’t seem so bad, because the Federation Ground Corps needs fresh meat. And they don’t take no for an answer… The problem, in Red’s eyes, is their 7% survival rate.
Until he’s offered a lifeline – the Mech Corps. They’re the elite. The first in and last out of every fight, piloting twenty foot tall steel beasts of war. But no tuber has ever made it into the Corps, and they want to keep it that way. The instructors want him out, the other recruits want him gone, and they’ll stop at nothing to make sure it happens.
Red’s about to find out that he’s jumped from the frying pan straight into the fire. And over the course of four books and more than 1,000 pages, he’ll be forced to battle fellow recruits, aliens, the Federation’s greatest enemies, and eventually, the Federation itself…
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy | Science Fiction
1. Recruit
Bred to work. Trained to fight. Sent to die.
James Maddox is a colony rat. A tuber: a clone bred on Genesis-53 to live, work, and die. The only way off a toxic dustball like Genesis is to enlist. But with a 7% three-year survival rate, the Federation’s Ground Corps doesn’t look too appealing…
Still, the recruiters are always looking for fresh meat. And they don’t take no for an answer.
So when a Federation dropship descends from the sky, Maddox isn’t given a chance to run. Hell, the damn thing nearly kills him. And that’s before he’s picked up, strapped to a rocket and fired at a training carrier in orbit. Ready to become cannon fodder on an alien battlefield.
Until he’s offered a lifeline. The Mech Corps. The Federation’s elite military arm. The first in and last out of every fight. But no tuber has ever made it into the Corps. The other recruits want him out. And they’ll stop at nothing to make it happen. Then again, they’ve never met James Maddox.
Boot camp is a long way from the battlefield. But when your ship is capable of interstellar travel, it’s closer than you might think…
2. Soldier
James Maddox is a hero. But that might not save him…
The Federation don’t like failure. Especially not when it involves the loss of a star carrier, and thousands of troops on board. They need someone to blame, and that someone is usually the newest, greenest recruit. Even if all Maddox did wrong was fall out of a burning spaceship onto a planet called Draven, recruit an army, blow up an enemy base and save the day…
Still, the Mech Corps prizes the Academy track. Uniformity. Everything that ‘Red’ Maddox ain’t. He’ll never be the automaton they want him to be. He figures he’s about to be ejected, or worse, court-martialled.
But for once, he gets lucky. He’s offered a gig in Special Ops. In the kind of unit where a soldier might make a name. Especially since it’s run by a disgraced officer looking for redemption, and the motley crew from Draven. It’s a second chance. But Red’s about to discover that if the Corps was the frying pan, then Special Ops is definitely the fire…
3. Hunter
Thirteen Months After the Events on Telmareen…
Federation Space Station / Designation: Athena
I stared down at my sweating, calloused palms and curled my shaking fingers into them, breathing out slowly to try and calm my nerves. Too bad it didn’t fucking work. “Will Airman First Class James Alfred Maddox please take the stand,” Senior Justice Anik said, his voice resonating around the huge, round room.
I swallowed and pushed off the long curved bench, just one of a hundred set on rising steps around the room, more an amphitheater than anything else.
I let myself down the central aisle and stepped up onto the podium in front of the judges. There were five of them, sitting in a row. Anik was in the middle, his embroidered blue sash hanging over his gray military dress denoting his position as the senior justice. On either side of him, two similarly dressed — albeit adorned with less regalia — justices sat, all glowering at me.
4. Warrior
Out of the frying pan, and into the fire…
Bailing out of a tilt-wing at ten thousand feet isn’t supposed to be fun. Unfortunately for James ‘Red’ Maddox, it’s about to be the best part of his week. Red and Everett find themselves alone, on a dustball planet that’s a hundred and twenty degrees in the sun, and ten below at night. The local wildlife is distinctly unfriendly, and the only thing they’re lower on than water is ammunition… But that’s just the start.
If he survives, Red will find himself in the center of the galaxy’s darkest secret: the hidden origin of both the Federation and the Free. A truth which threatens to shatter the universe’s fragile balance of power, and lead to a war that could destroy life itself. Red’s used to saving himself. But this time, the entire galaxy is at stake.
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