I also want to thank my West Point classmates Michael McGurk, Meg Roosma, Duane O’Laughlin, and Ginni Guiton for reading CHOP Line as it progressed to its final form. Their comments and observations, based so strongly in their military service and life experiences, greatly improved this book.
About the Author
HENRY V. O’NEIL is the pen name used by award-winning mystery novelist Vincent H. O’Neil for his science-fiction work. A graduate of West Point, he served in the U.S. Army Infantry with the Tenth Mountain Division at Fort Drum, New York and the First Battalion (Airborne) of the 508th Infantry in Panama. He has also worked as a risk manager, a marketing copywriter, and an apprentice librarian.
In 2005, he won the St. Martin’s Press Malice Domestic Award with his debut mystery novel Murder in Exile. That was followed by three more books in the Exile series: Reduced Circumstances, Exile Trust, and Contest of Wills. He has also written the theater-themed mystery novel Death Troupe and two books in a horror series entitled Interlands and Denizens. His website is www.vincenthoneil.com.
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