A Time to Kill Read online

  Penultimately, a sincere merci beaucoup to the fans who lurk and post at PsiPhi.org’s Star Trek Books BBS and the characters over at the TrekBBS Literature Forum, for making me feel so instantly welcome in the Star Trek books online community.

  And lastly, my thanks to you, the reader—for making this effort worthwhile. Enjoy.

  About the Author

  David Mack is a writer whose work spans multiple media. With writing partner John J. Ordover, he cowrote the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Starship Down” and the story treatment for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “It’s Only a Paper Moon.” Mack and Ordover also penned the four-issue Star Trek: Deep Space Nine / Star Trek: The Next Generation crossover comic-book miniseries Divided We Fall for WildStorm Comics. With Keith R.A. DeCandido, Mack cowrote the Star Trek: S.C.E. eBook novella Invincible, currently available in paperback as part of the collection Star Trek: S.C.E. Book 2: Miracle Workers. Mack also has made behind-the-scenes contributions to several Star Trek CD-ROM products.

  Mack’s solo writing for Star Trek includes the Star Trek: New Frontier Minipedia, the trade paperback The Starfleet Survival Guide, and the best-selling, critically acclaimed two-part eBook novel Star Trek: S.C.E.—Wildfire. His other credits include “Waiting for G’Doh, or, How I Learned to Stop Moving and Hate People,” a short story for the Star Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits, edited by Peter David; the short story “Twilight’s Wrath,” for the Star Trek anthology Tales of the Dominion War, edited by Keith R.A. DeCandido; and S.C.E. eBook #40—Failsafe. He currently is working on an original novel, developing new Star Trek book ideas, and writing a new S.C.E. novella titled Small World.

  A graduate of NYU’s renowned film school, Mack currently resides in New York City with his wife, Kara.