Armor

The military sci-fi classic of courage on a dangerous alien planet The planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable the water is poisonous. It is home to the most implacable enemies that humanity in all its interstellar expansion has ever encountered. 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 trooper in this armor is a one-man atomic powered battle fortress. 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. Felix is a scout in A-team Two. Highly competent he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. 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 Felixs 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.