The Romanov Rescue

Tom Kratman

In 1974, at age seventeen, Tom Kratman became a political refugee and defector from the PRM (People’s Republic of Massachusetts) by joining the Regular Army. He remained an infantryman for most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first enlistment. Back in the Army, he managed to do just about everything there was to do at one time or another. After the Gulf War, with the bottom dropping out of the anti-communist market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. Every now and again, when the frustrations of legal life and dealing with other lawyers became too much, Tom would rejoin the Army (or a similar group) for fun and frolic in other climes. His family, muttering darkly, put up with this for years. He no longer practices law, instead writing full-time for Baen.

His novels for Baen include:

• A State of Disobedience
• Caliphate
• A Desert Called Peace
• Carnifex
• The Lotus Eaters
• The Amazon Legion
• Come and Take Them
• The Rods and the Axe
• A Pillar of Fire by Night

With John Ringo, he has written:

• Watch on the Rhine
• Yellow Eyes
• The Tuloriad

He has also written the first three volumes of the modern-day military fiction series Countdown for Baen. He recently co-authored The Romanov Reign Series with Kacey Ezell and Justin Watson.

Justin Watson

Justin Watson grew up an Army brat, living in Germany, Alabama, Texas, Korea, Colorado, and Alaska, and fueled by a steady diet of X-Men, Star Trek, Robert Heinlein, DragonLance, and Babylon 5. While attending West Point, he met his future wife, Michele, on an airplane, and soon began writing in earnest with her encouragement. In 2005, he graduated from West Point and served as a field artillery officer, completing combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, and earning the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Combat Action Badge.

Medically retired from the Army in 2015, Justin settled in Houston with Michele, their four children, and an excessively friendly Old English Sheepdog.

Kacey Ezell

Kacey Ezell writes emotionally charged adventure fantasy and science fiction. She is a three-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won the 2018 Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. She has written multiple best-selling novels published with Chris Kennedy Publishing, Baen Books, and Blackstone Publishing. Additionally, she is a retired helicopter pilot with 3000+ hours in the UH-1N Huey, Mi-171, and EC130 helicopters. She is married with two daughters.

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