Another terrific story by Master Author David Drake. In this one we follow Lt. Arne Huber of Hammer's Slammers as he experiences the politics, horrors and double crosses of their new assignment on Platters World. It is full of the action we expect of the Slammers and well as many thought provoking issues that Arne runs into. A well written story by one who has been there that you should really enjoy.
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/
