This is one of the most enjoyable series I've ever read - and believe me, I've read a heap of them. The normal variety of evil doer's, human and nonhuman, is here as well as the magic that is in every book. My admiration for David Drake continues to grow with every book he's authored that I've read and I'm very appreciative of Open Library for allowing me to read them and other great books to my heart's content. Read this entire series and hopefully you'll enjoy it as much as I am.
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/
