肖恩·帕内尔，是一名前美军的游骑兵，在传奇性的第10山地师服役了六年，最后以上尉军衔退役。他获得过两枚铜星勋章（其中一枚附有英勇嘉奖），一枚紫心勋章。目前他正在迪尤肯大学攻读临床心理学博士学位。他跟妻子以及两个孩子住在宾夕法尼亚州的匹茨堡。 约翰·R·布鲁宁，是十五部非小说类著作的作者或合著者，他的作品包括广受好评的《剑影》（与耶利米·沃克曼合著）和《巷战》（与戴维·贝拉维亚合著）。为了本书的写作，他于2010年赶赴阿富汗，“嵌入”到联军部队中体验生活。目前，他跟妻子以及两个孩子住在俄勒冈。

The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. As few contemporaries failed to remark, converts were disproportionately represented among those who governed, administered, and fought for...(展开全部)

The figure of the renegade - a European Christian or Jew who had converted to Islam and was now serving the Ottoman sultan - is omnipresent in all genres produced by those early modern Christian Europeans who wrote about the Ottoman Empire. As few contemporaries failed to remark, converts were disproportionately represented among those who governed, administered, and fought for...(展开全部)