Product Description
In the past, the present, or the future, Drake shows you we "support our troops." Life is grim and often short for the few who protect the many, usually for little pay, less gratitude, and dim prospects of growing old. *A squadron of fighter spacecraft, their mother ship destroyed, are lost in the interstellar void, with little hope of finding their way home. *A Roman soldier, serving both his emperor and creatures beyond his comprehension, must destroy a usurper who is the catspaw for beings from another world with very unpleasant plans for this one. *Two battle-scarred Vietnam veterans battle the insectoid horror abducting humans for a purpose to which death is infinitely preferable. *The alien enemy at war with humans and their allies has blown up Halley's comet. Can Earth uncover the reason for this apparently meaningless act before it's too late? *Two new Hammer's Slammers adventures. And more. . . .
About the Author
David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted. He served the next two years in the Army, spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Viet Nam and Cambodia. Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981. Besides the previous novels in the Lt. Leary series (With the Lightnings, Lt. Leary, Commanding, The Far Side of the Stars, The Way to Glory , and Some Golden Harbor so far, with When the Tide Rises coming in March 2008), his books for Baen include the best-selling Hammer’s Slammers series (the most recent entry being Paying the Piper) and such stand-alone books as Ranks of Bronze, Starliner, All the Way to the Gallows, Redliners, and many more. For Tor, he has written the best-selling “Lord of the Isles” fantasy series, the most recent installment being Goddess of the Ice Realm.
