Description

Kill Team is Gav Thorpe's second Last Chancers novel, returning to Lieutenant Kage of the 13th Penal Legion as Colonel Schaeffer recruits him for a new suicide mission against a senior commander of the alien Tau Empire. Languishing in an Imperial detention centre, Kage is given a chance to avoid his fate by assembling a new team from the worst criminals and soldiers the Imperial Guard has to offer. Their mission is to infiltrate Tau territory and assassinate a powerful enemy general. As Kage struggles to turn his unruly recruits into a functioning unit, the mission exposes them to the Tau Empire from an unusually close Imperial perspective, revealing a foe whose society and methods differ sharply from those of the Imperium. A focused military adventure built around an expendable penal unit, Kill Team combines Kage's ruthless survival instinct with the culture clash of an Imperial force operating against one of the 41st Millennium's newer alien powers.