Afterword Duane Spurlock First, my thanks go to Chuck Welch and Steve Sherman, true members of the brotherhood of bronze, for their encouragement and critical support. My thanks also to Chuck for giving me the opportunity to realize a youthful dream, to write a full-fledged Doc Savage adventure. My thanks also to those of you who have written such nice words of encouragement to me about this story. Further, my apologies to those who have waited so patiently for this serialized version to run its course. When I started writing this tale, I had no idea that completing it would take so long. But two job changes, the birth of a child, and assorted other life events have a way of making projects drop from the priority list when those projects don't contribute meaningfully to household economics. My sincere thanks to those of you who have been so patient. My goal with this story was NOT to write the world's greatest Doc Savage tale. Instead, one of my aims was to write a story that melded those action-packed, super-science elements of the 1930s Doc tales with the less-fantastic elements typifying the mid- and later-1940s Doc novels. Placing this story at the end of the war between the events of TROUBLE ON PARADE and THE SCREAMING MAN seemed like a suitable course for accomplishing this task. My other target was to create an entertaining story for Doc fans to enjoy while waiting for the next professionally published appearance of the bronze marvel's adventures. I wanted to write in the spirit, if not in the actual style, of Lester Dent. I hope I have been at least partly successful in meeting these goals. -- Duane Spurlock March 2001

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