Mecha corps : a novel of the armor wars

Summary: "Matt Lowell is in hell--and there's no place he'd rather be. At a training camp on the backwater planet Earth, he and his fellow cadets are learning to ride Mechas: biomechanicals sporting both incredible grace and devastating firepower. Their ultimate aim is to combat the pirates of the corsair confederacy, who are constantly raiding Universal Union territories. But before they survive a battle, they have to survive their training. And as much as the robotic avatars are their greatest weapon, they may also be their greatest weakness. For every time Lowell and his comrades "plug in" to their Mechas, their minds are slowly being twisted and broken by an unseen power that is neither man--nor machine."--Cover.