Author Biography
Tom Kratman, in 1974 at age seventeen, became a political refugee and defector from the PRM (People's Republic of Masschusetts) by virtue of joinging the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts an an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his fisr hitch. Before turning to writing, he practiced law in southwest Virginia. In addition to Caliphate, Baen has published his novels, A Satate of Disobedience, A Desert Called Peace and its sequel Carnifex, and three collaborations with John Ringo in the Posleen War series, Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad.