Tom Kelly was a warrior, first, last and always. Being in a dress suit and working for a congressman hadn't changed that and the US Government hadn't forgotten about him as a man who gets things done - his way and his way only. They borrow him from his congressman and sent him on a extremely dangerous mission where even those supposedly on his side try to kill him. A warrior knows how to react to such danger. This adventure sends Tom back to the middle east where he contacts not only old friends but Aliens from space. It's a rip roaring adventure with nonstop action.
The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn’t run fast enough to get away.
Dave returned to become Chapel Hill’s Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences.
Dave describes war from where he saw it: the loader’s hatch of a tank in Cambodia. His military experience, combined with his formal education in history and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF and fantasy. His bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series is credited with creating the genre of modern Military SF. He often wishes he had a less interesting background.
Dave lives with his family in rural North Carolina.
http://david-drake.com/2011/biographies/
