Lash-Up

Afterword

This story first appeared as a novella in the anthology Combat edited by Stephen Coonts and published in hardback in 2001. I enjoyed writing the story, but there were entire plotlines that had to be ignored given the limitations of a forty-thousand-word format.

This novel has been updated and fills out those missing plotlines. The story was originally set in 2010 — i.e., then ten years in the future. As we write this (in 2013), we do have tablet PCs, but they’re still working on the Silver line to Dulles.

Chris and I hope you enjoy it.