Steve Perry (author)

Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and some unproduced movie scripts.

[1] (original setting) (created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik) The Matador series chronicles the birth, evolution, victory, and aftermath of a rebellion that overthrows a corrupt and declining interstellar government ("The Confederation") based on Earth.

The rebellion proper begins in The Man Who Never Missed, in which Emile Khadaji deserts from the Confederation military after a particularly bloody battle and religious experience, eventually joining up with a bartending martial artist monk named Pen, who teaches Khadaji the art used by his order, Sumito ("The 97 steps"), before setting him on his own path.

This he does by setting up a bar on a planet named Greaves, and while luring soldiers in by day, hunts and paralyzes them by night.

Kamus first appeared in two short stories by J. Michael Reaves in Volume 8 of the "Weird Heroes" series from Pyramid Books.