The Second of Three Volumes Collecting the Complete Best-Selling Series That Rocketed David Drake to Military Science Fiction Stardom This Omni-trade paperback volume collects the first four novles in the series At Any Price Counting the Cost Rolling Hot & The Warrior-all have been out of print & unavailable for several years Neither stainless white knights nor bloodthirsty killers the Slammers are competent professionals with recognizable human flaws engaged in a deadly business Their interanl conflicts set against vivid scenes of battle make their stories exciting & compelling This is the second of the three volume set presenting for the first time the entire genre-defining Slammers series in uniform Omni-trade paperback volumes with new intoductions by major SF figures & new afterwords by David Drake Each volume will also include a Slmmers story not collected in previous Slammer&s books About the Author David Drake was attending Duke Univeristy 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 Viet Nam & Cambodia Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke & was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill North Carolina He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981 Besides the best-selling Hammer&s Slammers series his books for Baen include the popular Leary of the RCN series with seven volumes so far With the Lightnings; Lt Leary Commanding The Far Side of the Stars; The Way to Glory; Some Golden Harbor When the Tide Rises & In the Stormy Red Sky His " Lord of the Isles" fantasy novels for Tor are genre best sellers Among his other Baen titkes are Ranks of Bronze All the Way to thre Gallows Redliners & many more