Battletech 09: Ideal War: Ideal War

by Christopher Kubasik

Captain Paul Master, a knight of the House of Marik, is in over his head, when he journeys to a backwater planet to study a counterinsurgency operation and finds himself in the middle of a guerrilla... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451452127
• ISBN13: 9780451452122
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This was the first book that I owned in the Battletch series and I think it is the best book to get first. It explains alot of what you need to know about the Battletech world. It dosn't offer alot of action unitll the end but it still kept my attention.

An epic novel

Chris Kubasik really did a wonderful job with this one. I own nearly every Battletech novel and gaming system and this novel has really stood out. The realism in the 'horrors of war' concepts truely stand out as well as the feelings of the main character Paul Masters as he see's that it is not an 'ideal war'. One last thing his Phoenix Hawk is the best described mech in any of the books i have read.

Unique from other Battletech novels.

This was trully a great book. It shows how the main character, Captain Paul Masters learns that not all wars are fought with dignity and respect. He ends up being caught in a war that he doesn't understand. The guerrila warfare he ends up in turns out to be not what he expected. It ends up being one of the bloodiest he's ever seen and he is amazed how the war is fought ruthlessly. The last battle was also great because of the twist that the novel takes. It's really a great book and I recomend it to anyone.

The Greatest Mechwar with lots of different Mechs.

Captian Paul Masters, of the House of Marik, knows well the art of BattleMech combat. When he's sent to evaluate a war on a backwater planet,he doesn't find what he expects. He finds a geurrella war, where the GFL try to deprive the True Belivers of their resources by any means possible. Their is no honor in this war. Your only Allies our anonymous. It's fighting a war that's really dirty.

A very fast pced book with outstanding writing!

This book was the first Batteltech book I read, and it realy gets you going. A real page turner. This book is fast paced with lots of action. The writer puts you in a Elit pilots point of view when he becomes traped in a gurilla war. MUST READ! Good for begginers.