Metal Gear Solid by Raymond Benson is an interpretation of Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid game for Playstation. It was published on the 27th of May, 2008 in Americaand on the 5th of June in the UK. The novel has been translated into Japanese.
Plot summary
Highly skilled former FOXHOUND agent Solid Snake is called out of retirement to do what he does best - neutralize a crisis of epic proportions. A deadly team of renegade FOXHOUND operatives has taken over the nuclear disposal facility on Shadow Moses Island in the icy Aleutians. If their demands aren't met, a powerful, top secret weapon will be unleashed upon the world.
Solid Snake's mission is to breach the heavily fortified base to rescue hostages and destroy this superweapon. His only obstacles are brainwashed commandos, DNA-enhanced troops and six first-rate killers with extraordinary abilities. All alone in hostile territory, armed with nothing but his wits, Snake has only a snowballs chance in hell of taking out his target and keeping nuclear nightfall from descending on the earth.
But nothing is as it seems. Somebody is hiding something. Somebody has a hidden agenda. And somebody wants Snake to learn secrets about his dark past - secrets that would shake any man to his core....
Characters
Solid Snake
Main article: Solid Snake
Solid Snake is the central character of Metal Gear Solid. He has been living in exile in the Alaskan wilderness and accepts the mission as a person favour for his old Commanding Officer Colonel Roy Campbell. He is a highly trained stealth operative and a one man army.
Roy Campbell
Snake's old commanding officer and former commander of FOXHOUND, he comes out of retirement to command Solid Snake once again. Campbell has more of a personal stake in the mission, as Meryl is held captive by FOXHOUND.
Meryl Silverburgh
She is former FOXHOUND commander, Roy Campbell's niece, and a member of the "Next Generation Special Forces" (reserve members of FOXHOUND). During the mission she is captured and subjected to torture and "things even worse than that". In the end she escapes with Snake and Otacon.
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