Author’s Note: Of reluctant villains, sword and sandal epics, sleazy spaceport bars and food
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Honourable Enemies is unusual among the In Love and War stories in that it is more Brian Mayhew’s story than Anjali and Mikhail’s. Though the initial inspiration for this story was to create a situation where Anjali and Mikhail are forced to work together with Brian Mayhew, even though they’re officially enemies.
Now Colonel Brian Mayhew started out as a rather one-dimensional antagonist whose only purpose it was to hunt down Anjali and Mikhail, a task he was very zealous about. You can see that version of Brian Mayhew in action in Bullet Holes and also in Freedom’s Horizon to a certain degree.
However, one day I was musing about the overall arc of the In Love and War series, particular
