Consequently, he first stalls for time and eventually has the on-planet senior officers detained after negotiating a deal with von Bulow. He considers a defense against von Bulow's powerful force hopeless and does not want to see Glengarry's infrastructure damaged by pointless fighting.
#THE BLOOD OF HEROES BOOK FREE#
Governor General Roger DeVries, a former free trader whom Carlyle had installed as head of government on Glengarry specifically because he as an outsider would be above the politicking among the planet's minor nobility, has since developed a genuine care for the planet. The coup is backed by Richard Steiner and Ryan Steiner. An invasion force of Free Skye separatists under General-Kommandant Wilhelm Friedrich von Bulow descends on Glengarry, claiming that House Davion's influence over the Federated Commonwealth is in violation of the Lyran Commonwealth's constitution and legally null and void, and that von Bulow consequentially remains the appointed Baron of Glengarry. In their absence, and with a large share of the unit posted to Borghese, Glengarry is garrisoned only by a skeleton force of Gray Death Legion personnel under Major de Villar. But in 3056 Colonel Grayson Carlyle and his wife Lori cannot attend for the first time in a quarter of a century because they have been summoned before Prince Victor Steiner-Davion on Tharkad: Carlyle is made a Baron and receives Glengarry as his fief. Alexander Carlyle is one of the cadets in training, and groomed to inherit command of the unit one day.Īpril 1, the day of the recovery of the Helm Memory Core and the conclusion of the Helm campaign, is celebrated as a holiday within the Legion called the Day of Heroes. However, in the Clan invasion Sudeten was overrun and the Legion resettled to Glengarry. The rebels didn't expect the legion's newest members to take matters into their own hands.Įver since surviving the treachery on Helm twenty-eight years ago, the Gray Death Legion has been in the employ of House Steiner, who gave them Sudeten as a landhold. When Prince Davion summons Grayson Death Carlyle and his wife, Lori Kalmar-Carlyle, to the Federated Commonwealth capital, the rebel forces seize their chance to establish a garrison on Glengarry. The final piece of the plan requires the secessionist forces to gain access to the planet Glengarry and the mercenary group that calls it home: the Gray Death Legion. Throughout the March, civil and military leaders plot to take up arms against Prince Victor Steiner-Davion. The rebels' plans hinge on gaining control of the Skye March, and thus controlling the crucial Terran Corridor. Melissa Steiner's assassination ignited the fires of civil war, and now secessionist factions clamor for rebellion against the Federated Commonwealth. Grayson Carlyle and Lori Kalmar are still leading the unit, but many of the old members have retired and a new generation is taking over.
The novel picks up the story of the Gray Death Legion three decades after the recovery of the Helm Memory Core that catapulted the unit to fame. Keith, Jr., who authored most other books of the Gray Death Legion book, the Keith brothers wrote Blood of Heroes together it is also listed in William Keith's own bibliography. It is credited to Andrew Keith, but according to William H.
īlood of Heroes is the fourth book of the Saga of the Gray Death Legion.
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