Big, fat old manuscripts

You know, I've yet to hit a manuscript length 100% on the nose the first time. Both Cliffhangers and Return to Honor ended up short; Blitzkrieg went long... and as it turns out, so is SWAT.

See, it's supposed to be about 30,000 words, which it already is (and then some). And I'm getting all this cool additional info from my real-life SWAT contacts, which means something's gotta come out in order for something else to go in. It's quite annoying, really. It's not as if I need another 30,000 - in fact, it'd be hard to fill a full-sized 90,000 word book with just SWAT info (though I supposed detailing real world teams would fill up a chunk). Anyway, my point is, I need about 35,000, which is too big to fit in 48-pages, dang it.

So... my current quandary is how, exactly, to pare down the book to fit into it's own skin, without taking out too many vital organs. Wow, what a horrible metaphor. I should probably get some sleep...