Love Behind the Lines
I have two military companies of Night Stalkers that I write about.
Emily Beale and Mark Henderson founded the 5th Battalion D Company (5D) in the book The Night Is Mine. (In reality there are only four battalions in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment—the 5th is all mine.) Twenty novels and a near equal number of short stories later, I wanted to tell a different kind of Night Stalker story.
The 5D was heavily based in reality. Every one of these missions is possible, or as close as I could make it. They feel, as one critic called it in a glowing review, “ripped from the headlines.” That was my intent. I wanted to showcase the types of missions these people take on. (I can only hope that they have equally happy love stories.)
But there were looser, more
