Death's Head
  • Published: 20 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553818710
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $39.99

Death's Head

(Death's Head Book 1)

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1 Sep 2010
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20 Mar 2008
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A hugely entertaining, action-packed, testosterone-fuelled, bone-crunchingly violent SF adventure...

Few survive the cage. Fewer still live to face the whipping post. Of those who do, few are in a state to know what is happening to them. One of those who does is ex-Legion Etrangere sergeant Sven Tveskoeg. As this stubborn, insubordinate son-of-a-bitch feels the first lash fall, he hears the desert tribes attack, and watches as they slaughter his comrades before they can execute him.
Rescued from certain death, Sven joins the tribes. Until his ruthless skills come to the attention of the Death's Head, the infamous elite special ops force. They want Sven to sort out a little 'local difficulty'. But it seems all is not as it should be. Sven feels he's a pawn in a deadly game, and pawns have an unfortunate habit of being sacrificed. But Death's Head Second Lieutenant Tveskoeg, Obsidian Cross 3rd Class, is nobody's sacrifice. And even a pawn can checkmate a king...
  • Published: 20 March 2008
  • ISBN: 9780553818710
  • Imprint: Bantam
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

David Gunn

Smartly dressed, resourceful and discreet, David Gunn has undertaken assignments in Central America, the Middle East and Russia (among many other places). He is happiest when on the move and tends not to stay in one town or city for very long. He comes from a service family, has an impressive collection of edged weapons and sleeps with a shotgun under his bed. Death's Head is David Gunn's first novel.

Also by David Gunn

Death's Head: Day Of The Damned
Death's Head: Maximum Offence (Death's Head 2)
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Praise for Death's Head

Powerful and explosive...Tveskoeg is one of the classiest fictional hard men I've come across in a long time

John Berlyne, SF REVU

The plot kicks off at an absurd speed and never really lets up...an outrageous read: violent, witty and immense fun

DEATHRAY

Unashamed, balls-to-the-wall science fiction...violent, graphic and at times a little crazy...A fun ride

SFFWORLD

Crunchingly hard...shocking, exciting, murderous fun with more than little intrigue to keep you guessing. This is how cults are born

DAILY SPORT

Sven is a fun guy to hang out with - disrespectful of authority, always ready with an outrageously violent plan...there are some great large-scale battles, and things explode with indecent regularity

SFX magazine

I was hooked...took me right back to the fun I had reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter on Mars or the old Robert E Howard Conan books!...Yeah! 'Starship Troopers' meets Schwarzenegger's 'Commando'.

NEAL ASHER