Siege of Lightning

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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Siege of Lightning is dedicated to two very special people in my life:

My beautiful wife, Lory, a friend for all seasons.

My son, Cameron. Thanks for letting me rediscover the world through your eyes.

When I first wrote Siege back in 1990–1991 (it was originally published by The Berkley Publishing Group as an original paperback in April of 1993), George H. W. Bush was our president, Johnny Carson still hosted The Tonight Show, Cheers dominated the TV landscape, and Dances with Wolves won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In addition, Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm—the liberation of Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s grip — were in full swing. At the time, NASA was busy building the Space Shuttle Endeavour to replace Challenger, lost in that tragic accident on January 28th, 1986. Interestingly enough, the novel was originally titled Flight of Endeavour, but my editor at Berkley, Andrew Zack, talked me into changing Endeavour for a fictional shuttle, Lightning. And while he was at it, Andy also changed the title.

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