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In the future there is no want, no war, no
disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a
moment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war.
Everywhere, people who have never known a moment of want or pain are left
wondering how to survive.
But
scattered across the face of the Earth are communities that have returned to the
natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund
Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of
the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming
the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the
fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded
lion.
But what the jackals do not know
is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past
is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund
Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was. . .
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About John
Ringo:
". . . the thinking
reader's zombie novel . . . Ringo fleshes out his theme with convincing
details . . . the proceedings become oddly
plausible."—Publishers Weekly on Under a
Graveyard
Sky
"[Ringo's work is]
peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well
as tactical finesse."—Library
Journal
"Explosive . .
. fans . . . will appreciate Ringo's lively narrative and flavorful
characters."—Publishers
Weekly
". . . practically
impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . .
executed with skill, verve, and
wit."—Booklist
"Crackerjack
storytelling."—Starlog
