William R. Forstchen

William R. Forstchen is an American author and academic, a history professor known for blending rigorous research with popular fiction, who co-wrote Honoured Enemy with Raymond E. Feist as part of the Legends of the Riftwar trilogy. Honoured Enemy strands a Kingdom patrol and their Tsurani prisoner behind enemy lines in a brutal winter survival story set during the original Riftwar, one of three standalone side-adventures in the trilogy, each co-written by Feist with a different collaborator and following a different cast of soldiers and mercenaries caught up in the war's margins. Outside his work with Feist, Forstchen is best known for his own military and alternate-history fiction, including the Lost Regiment series and One Second After, a novel depicting the collapse of American society following an electromagnetic pulse attack that became widely read and discussed for its plausible-sounding technical detail about infrastructure failure. That same interest in the granular, survival-focused mechanics of a fighting unit cut off from support carries directly into Honoured Enemy's premise, making Forstchen a natural fit for a story built around soldiers stranded deep in hostile territory with dwindling resources and no clear path home.