Kill Team — Gav Thorpe

THE COLONEL COUGHS purposefully. He really hasn't changed a bit. Still that strong, clean shaven jaw, sharp cheek bones and the piercing glare of his ice-blue eyes. Eyes that can bore into your soul and burn through you sharper than a las-cutter.
‘There is another mission,' he begins.
‘I figured as much,' I reply.
‘There is not much time, relatively speaking,' he continues, his gaze constant. ‘You will assemble and train a team to assassinate an alien military commander...'

LANGUISHING IN AN Imperial detention centre, Lieutenant Kage - convict soldier of the 13th Penal Legion - is at the end of the line. That is, until his ruthless old commanding officer returns with one more deadly assignment. Now Kage must whip into shape a new team of the very worst the Imperial Guard has to offer, before leading them on their one and only mission: to assassinate a warmongering enemy general, one of the mysterious alien Tau!