Death's Bright Day

A new novel in the best-selling RCN military SF series: Captain Daniel Leary and his cybrarian friend Adele Mundy think they’ve earnt the quiet life. But there is a rebellion in a distant, but politically critical, star system and high officials are determined to get the lifelong friends involved.

The odds in guns are badly in the enemy's favour. And even if Daniel and Adele succeed in battle, they can’t be sure their employers really wanted them to win.

About the Author

The Army took David Drake from Duke Law School and sent him on a motorized tour of Viet Nam and Cambodia with the 11th Cav, the Blackhorse. He learned new skills, saw interesting sights, and met exotic people who hadn't run fast enough to get away. Dave returned to become Chapel Hill's Assistant Town Attorney and to try to put his life back together through fiction making sense of his Army experiences. Dave often 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 and Latin, has made him one of the foremost writers of realistic action His books include the genre-defining and bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series, short story collection Night & Demons, as well as the RCN military SF series including What Distant Deeps, In the Stormy Red Sky, The Road of Danger, The Sea without a Shore, and many more.