Loose Cannon

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Military science fiction master David Drake’s two technothriller Tom Kelly novels Skyripper & Fortress in one volume Skyripper During the Cold War a Soviet scientist has knowledge the Earth will be attacked by aliens but only the US has the laser-based technology to knock out the alien weaponry Enter Tom Kelly American spy navigator of the US intelligence agency spaghetti & ruthlessly effective operative when it comes to doing his job Kelly will get the information into the right hands to save most of humanity – but in the process he’s prepared to annihilate anyone who gets in the way of his duty Fortress Tom Kelly & his ruthless adventurous ways return in an alternate past as JFK builds a space station to guard against alien attack Now nefarious forces with the Soviet Union as well as actual evil aliens are trying to turn it against Earth & the US THEY may have the high ground & the element of surprise on their hands but WE have Tom Kelly For better or worse Or both About the Author The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School & sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam & Cambodia with the 11th Cav the Blackhorse He learned new skills saw interesting sights & met exotic people who hadn&t run fast enough to get away Dave returned to become Chapel Hill&s Assistant Town Attorney & 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 & Latin has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action SF & 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