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  He should go and see to his men, because if they were kept waiting any longer they were likely to blow something up.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thanks for the encouragement of the Loyal Crew who have been with this series since the beginning: nephews David, Alex, Dylan, and honorary nephew Fletcher, and compadre Josh, half a brother half a world away; to my agent Kristin for her inexhaustible patience; to my copyeditor Julia, for her usual magic; to Rene, for believing in the series; to Sophie, for finally starting kindergarten so Mommy and Daddy can have writing time; and always, to Sara.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  M.C. Planck is the author of Sword of the Bright Lady (World of Prime: Book 1) and The Kassa Gambit. After a nearly-transient childhood, he hitchhiked across the country and ran out of money in Arizona. So he stayed there for thirty years, raising dogs, getting a degree in philosophy, and found­­ing a scientific instrument company. Having read virtually everything by the old Masters of SF&F, he decided he was ready to write. A decade later, with a little help from the Critters online critique group, he was actually ready. He was relieved to find that writing novels is easier than writing software, as a single punctuation error won’t cause your audience to explode and die. When he ran out of dogs, he moved to Australia to raise his daughter with kangaroos.

  Author photo by Dennis Creasy