Great book, full of action and huge amounts of background data (which is one of the reasons I love Battletech).
Fans of the older books though will start to notice that this is where the characters start to change drasticaly.
Victor Davion starts entering his 'wimpy' stage and Kai starts to become this ruthless cold killer (which is a total switch on the two characters).
Still, the two of them are not as bad yet as they eventualy become, so it's not too bad.
Buy this book, good stuff.
Stu.