Summary
Entry #2 in the Citizen series, and sequel to Into the Hinterlands by biological scientist Dr. John Lambshead and nationally best-selling DavidDrake. The Right Man for a Very Bad Job! The Cutter Stream colonies were at peace.If everybody behaved reasonably, that peace could last a thousand years. AllenAllenson had known war; it had made him peaceful and reasonable. He was far tooexperienced to believe the same was true of all his fellow colonists, however,let alone the government of the distant homeworld across the Bight. War wascoming, a war that the colonies had to win if they were ever to be more thanprison camps and a dumping ground for incompetent noblemen. The experience thathad caused Allenson to hate war made him the only man who could lead thecolonial army. Allenson knew that he wasn't really a general, but he understoodhis fellow colonists better than any homeworld general could. He would free theCutter Stream, or die trying. What Allen Allenson would not do, what he wouldnever do, was quit!
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 in Vietnam and Cambodia. Upon his 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. His books include the genre-defining and bestselling Hammer's Slammers series, the nationally bestselling RCN series including In the Stormy Red Sky , The Road of Danger , The Sea without a Shore and, with John Lambshead, the Citizen series entries Into the Hinterlands and Into the Maelstrom.
Dr. John Lambshead is a retired senior research scientist in marine biodiversity at the Natural History Museum, London. He is also the Visiting Chair at Southampton University, Oceanography, and Regent's Lecturer, University of California. He writes military history and designs computer and fantasy games. He is the author of swashbuckling fantasy Lucy's Blade, contemporary urban fantasy Wolf in Shadow, and coauthor, with nationally best-selling author David Drake, of science fiction adventures, Into the Hinterlands and Into the Maelstrom.