Sometimes doing the right thing is the wrong thing to do. Hank Beveridge and Lieutenant Newton Shapiro are a couple of nice guys whose worlds just happen to collide. Hank's getting up in years and Newton has his first independent field command. On Third World, people are few and far between, and women of marrying age are scarce as hen's teeth. Yet Hank's been thinking along those lines for some time. He's still looking. Newton has his own job to do, and no matter who gets hurt, someone is under arrest until he gets them before a judge. Unless someone thinks of something pretty darned fast, a real tragedy is going to happen. The Empire is a long ways away, but the locals are at least peaceable. Louis Shalako is the founder of Long Cool One Books and the author of twenty-four novels, numerous novellas and other short stories. Louis studied Radio, Television and Journalism Arts at Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology, later going on to study fine art. He began writing for community newspapers and industrial magazines over thirty years ago. His stories appear in publications including Perihelion Science Fiction, Bewildering Stories, Aurora Wolf, Ennea, Wonderwaan, Algernon, Nova Fantasia, and Danse Macabre. He lives in southern Ontario and writes full time. Louis enjoys cycling, swimming and good books.
