Is vengeance out of reach?

Pirates have been harrassing Federation shipping for twenty years. The Federation Navy seems powerless to stop them.

Deke Sharp, of the secretive D Branch, takes on the case. He makes good progress until his ship is found destroyed, a victim of the pirates he's been chasing.

The only sign of life the Navy finds in the wreckage is a single medical life-support unit. The DNA signature is of Deke Sharp.

Terribly injured, with no memory, can D Branch put Deke Sharp back together enough for him to seek vengeance for his murdered crew?

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INTERVIEW WITH RICH WEYAND

Is 'Razor Sharp' the beginning of a new series?"

Yes, this is the first book of the Deke Sharp series.

And it's espionage, like Agency?

Yes, it's espionage. Completely different universe than the Agency universe, though.

The blurb describes Deke Sharp as 'terribly injured'. Is that at the beginning of the book?

Yes. The Navy goes out to answer a distress call from his ship, which is under attack by pirates. All they find when they get there is wreckage, plus one functional medical life-support unit.

In which is Deke Sharp, right?

In which is what remains of Deke Sharp. Deaf, dumb, blind, quadruplegic, and amnesiac. They decide to rebuild him.

Oh, boy. That sounds like quite a job.

Yes, but they do rebuild him. Lots of prosthetics and robotics and automation.

And then what?

Vengeance, for his murdered crew. He won't let that sit. The pirates will not escape him.

Wow. How did this book write?

Very slowly. I had health problems of my own this summer, so there were days I didn't feel up to writing. It took me eighty calendar days to write 80,000 words.

Yes, you're usually two or two-and-a-half times faster than that. Who's on the cover?

Deke Sharp, before his injuries. The Deke Sharp everybody in the book knows at the beginning. Another stunning cover by Luca Oleastri and Paola Giari of Rotwang Studio in Italy.

What's next for Deke Sharp?

I don't know yet. I only find out as I write it.

And you haven't started it yet.

Nope. Not yet.