AFTERWORD
This second novel is less military and more spy-thrillerish than The Scope of Justice. Looking back now, it’s amazing how far technology has advanced in fifteen years. Much of the tradecraft remains the same, though. It’s interesting to consider how much the improvements hinder and aid both sides in the engagement. As with actual military operations, old tactics remain and evolve, new tactics join and sometimes displace, but few things become totally obsolete.
Looking back, I had fun with this one. We wanted creepy-scary but not horror or fantasy; real terror to add to the real terror, as it were. Then add in the real complications of people, who never seem to perform the way one would like them to.