Once upon a time, Major Mick Gilligan, USAF, didn’t believe in Magic. Nor, hadhe been told of it, would he have believed in the elf Lisella, or cared thatshe had cursed master programmer Wiz Zumwalt, later of Cupertino and now of analternate world where magic works like a computer program.But that was before he took his F-15 out over the Bering Sea on a top-priorityintercept, came out on the losing end of a dogfight with a dragon, and foundhimself caught in a climactic battle that pitted Wiz and his fellow SiliconValley hackers against a couple of computer criminals in alliance with theforces of primal chaos.Before he was done, Major Mick Gilligan would join with an ulikely gang ofprogrammers, wizards, elves, dragon cavalry, gremlins, demons and a stolenRussian super-computer in a desperate effort to save both the world of magicand his own.