Night of the Hawk

Note

This story is not intended to chronicle or explain actual U.S. government, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Special Operations Command, or military contractors’ tactics, doctrines, procedures, equipment, or capabilities. The scenarios, units, equipment, and tactics described in Night of the Hawk are purely products of my imagination. I have made every effort to be accurate, but this is a work of fiction and none of the persons, units, equipment, scenarios, or tactics I describe are intended to accurately depict the real thing. I hope I’ve done our special operations forces some justice (at least so they won’t be out gunning for me!), but my intention was not to tell their story for them. I hope to be qualified to do so someday.

I don’t especially care for sequels, but I do like bringing back many of the characters from previous stories-they are like old friends. The plot and settings for this story stand alone, but in general occur after Flight of the Old Dog and Hammerheads, but before the events described in Day of the Cheetah and Sky Masters.

I still refer to the B-1B bomber as “Excalibur,” although its official Air Force nickname is “Lancer.”