Contents

Disclaimers

Dramatis Personae

Author’s Introductory Note

Chapter 1: Hammer Time

Chapter 2: Getting Out of Dodge

Chapter 3: True Believer

Chapter 4: Rushes

Chapter 5: Trogs

Chapter 6: Walking by Faith

Chapter 7: Wheat Berries

Chapter 8: Monroe Doctrine

Chapter 9: Decrees

Chapter 10: Courting and Quirting

Chapter 11: Space Rifles

Chapter 12: Terminal Ballistics

Chapter 13: Under Escort

Chapter 14: In the Footsteps of Josephus

Chapter 15: Vigilantes

Chapter 16: Good Fences

Chapter 17: From the Oil Patch

Chapter 18: Millennium Falcon

Chapter 19: A Bump in the Road

Chapter 20: Fire Mission

Chapter 21: TDY—Temporary Duty, Yonder

Chapter 22: Belly of the Beast

Chapter 23: Up Close and Personal

Chapter 24: Mole Tunnels

Chapter 25: El Tesoro

Chapter 26: Trampling Out the Vintage

Chapter 27: Anthem

Chapter 28: New Guards for Future Security

Chapter 29: To Dust

Chapter 30: The Second Age of Steam

Acknowledgments

Glossary