A new head of the RCN doesn't like nor appreciate Commander Leary and sends him out on a mission fraught with political and physical challenges to be rid of him. Being who he is, Daniel Leary does what is necessary to ensure his chances of success by using the ship and crew he knows - funded by himself. The team of Daniel and Adele Mundy once again wreak havoc on those who would endanger his mission - there are many of them. Another outstanding adventure by David Drake.
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/
