Once again, I’d like to thank Toni Weisskopf and Tony Daniel of Baen Books, who are still making this teenage boy’s dreams of being a science fiction author come true.
Thanks as well to my wife, Mona Pinette, for her editorial suggestions and advice, as well as my long-suffering first reader, my brother Michael DuBois.
And once again, I’d like to extend my deep thanks and gratitude to former U.S. Army Captain Vincent O’Neil, Company Commander, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 508th Infantry Regiment—a skilled author in his own right—who read the manuscript and offered key corrections and suggestions. Any military-related errors in the book are mine alone.