Gavin Smith: Special Purposes: First Strike Weapon

Includes Bonus Content!

When Thomas ‘Only’ Atkins signed up to fight for King and Country, half the boys he grew up with ended up fighting alongside him.

The 13th Battalion of the Pennine Fusiliers were a ‘Pal’s Brigade,’ a whole town transposed to the Somme together to feed the Front’s relentless need for warm bodies. They also disappeared from the face of the Earth, on the 1st November 1916, along with nearly half a mile of mud and trenches, a Sopwith and a tank.

Finding themselves on a terrifying alien world, Tommy and his mates have to contend with man-eating plants, ravening beasts and the eerie, insectile Chatts—to say nothing of a sinister, arcane threat from within their own ranks…

The No Man’s World Omnibus presents all three novels from this series, Black Hand Gang , The Ironclad Prophecy and The Alleyman , along with a new introduction and extensive new content.

‘Kelleher has accomplished something quite difficult: He has given us an entire company of soldiers that we like, hate, or feel despair for…

The novel is action-packed; the world is a brilliantly created “death world” that portends adventures.’

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First published in 2017 by Abaddon Books™, Rebellion Intellectual Property Limited, Riverside House, Osney Mead, Oxford, OX2 0ES, UK.

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ISBN: 978-1-78618-079-7

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