Battletech 39: Sword and Fire (Twilight Of The Clans)

So far the best and most entertaining novel of the Twilight of the Clans series. The plot involving the investigations of Morgan's murder is excellent and the fights to conquer Diana by Task Force Serpent are decent battletech war tales. I would have wished a more effective defense by the remaining CSJ forces, but in view of the following book of the series, the Inner Sphere units needed to get out of the initial assault rather unscathed.

this book is realy cool because it shows how clan smoke jaguire tries to deal with the invading inner sphere attackers.I am a huge fan of battle tech(I have ALL the books,games,and r.p.g.s)and I think this is one of the best works ever produced by FASA!!!

It is a good book, but it's a little slow till the end. You have to read it because it's book 5 of Twilight of the Clans and you get to find who killed Morgan. Toward the end the book get pretty cool.

Yup, this was the first Battletech book that I read. I was looking at the back and saw that Winston is the Eridani Light Horse General so I bought it. I'm one of the ELH in a couple of Mechwarrior leagues. This book was awesome but I thought it was a little slow in the beginning. But I guess it was necessary for the investigation of the Marshal's murder. Still, it left some loose ends... who really hired the assasin? The battles were really awesome. We'll just have to wait until the clans get their reinforcements -- the Inner Sphere warriors mainly fought solahmas and cadets.. we'll see how they'll stand against more capable warriors. The Jaguars paid for what they did to Turtle Bay!!! GO ELH!!!

Thomas S. Gressman is a good and capable writer and shares Stackpole's gift for infusing the plot and his characters with life. The fall of the Smoke Jaguar Clan was handled a little flippantly but that is a very small drop in the ocean after all. I found nothing wrong with it. I do feel sad that the good people at FASA see fit to be so unbelievably biased as to wipe out a whole faction such as the Clans which admittedly are far more interesting than their Inner Sphere counterparts.