Starcraft: Devil's Due

The next time I wrote in the universe, it was the backstory of the legendary Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay. Blizzard knew exactly what they wanted in the story and I was given a detailed 40-page outline. I may have had a precise path of scenes and events to follow, but I had so much fun with the dialogue! Tychus Findlay was an easy character to grasp regarding how he spoke and what he said, so I was just along for the ride.

And this ride starts with a train robbery.

I even dedicated the book to Paul Newman and Robert Redford. If you know, you know. And if you still don't know after reading this, please go watch “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” immediately. --Christie

The year is 2494. Almost five years ago, Jim Raynor and Tychus Findlay were members of the Heaven’s Devils, an elite Confederate marine unit praised for its nerves of steeland combat expertise. After making a stand against their corrupt commanding officer, the two men were forced to go AWOL or risk being unjustly prosecuted and resocialized.

Now, Raynor and Findlay are outlaws hounded by an unyielding interstellar marshal. Life, however, has never beenbetter. Each day is another chance to pilfer more credits from the Confederacy’s deep coffers. Each night holds the promise of spending their hard-earned profits in bars, brothels, and gambling halls. But a man can only run so far before the law—and his past—catch up with him. . . .

Devils’ Due recounts an unforgettable period of Jim Raynor’s life as he descends into the Koprulu sector’s criminal underworld alongside the street-savvy Findlay. Here, far from his humble upbringing on the fringe world of Shiloh, Raynor will face some of the most trying challenges of his life. The decisions he makes will alter his destiny forever and put his father’s oft-spoken wisdom, “A man is what he chooses to be,” to the ultimate test.