BattleTech: Prometheus Unbound (Proliferation Cycle #2) - BattleTech Novella

THE STRUGGLE FOR BATTLEMECH SUPREMACY CONTINUES... Prometheus Unbound is the second of six BattleTech novellas detailing the struggle to create the next awesome weapon to rule the battlefield-the BattleMech. Fifteen years after the Terran Hegemony fielded the Mackie, the very first BattleMech, the Great House has been running rampant over the other Houses in the Inner Sphere. Any who try to fight the Terrans and their death machines are utterly defeated.
but there are other ways to level the battlefield... And the Lyran Commonwealth is about to employ one of the oldest strategies in the book: if you can't beat 'em, steal from 'em. A crack commando unit is assigned their most perilous mission yet: infiltrate a heavily-defended Terran world and steal the plans for the Terran BattleMechs. Besides the odds being stacked against the, the leader of this team has his own demon to deal with-one that stands twelve meters tall, and shakes the ground when it walks...