MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, podcaster, game designer, computer game designer, editor, and graphic novelist who is best known for his New York Times bestselling novels I, Jedi and Rogue Squadron. This novel is his forty-fourth to be published. He is currently finishing work on Of Limited Loyalty, the second in the Crown Colonies series. You can learn more about him and his work at his website: www.stormwolf.com.