Robot Jox : the novel

GLADIATORS OF THE FUTUREOne thunderous worldwide duel will decide the balance of world power. Each champion is undefeated. Each is mounted on a behemoth killer-robot capable of configuring itself for battle on land, sea, or air. Each fights on behalf of a billion souls.Then a hideous accident incinerates hundreds of spectators, and the Common Market’s champion refuses to fight. Has he gone over to the hated Confederation, or simply lost his will to win? The only person who knows is the woman who rides into battle in his place—a gladiator of the future, ravishing entire continents in a maelstrom of martial fury . . . In a futuristic world, global wars have been replaced by single combats between colossal robotic war machines, creating a dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a few men and women