Summary
Book #19 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring ofFire series! After carving a free state for itself in war-torn 17th century Europe,citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia must contend withFrance's infamous Cardinal Richilieu, who is determined to keep his grip onpower no matter what history says.
Eric Flint was born in southern California in 1947. He received a bachelor's degree from UCLA in 1968 and did some work toward a Ph.D. in history, with a specialization in history of southern Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries, also at UCLA. After leaving the doctoral program over political issues, he supported himself from that time until age 50 as a laborer, machinist and labor organizer.
In 1993, his short story entitled Entropy and the Strangler won first place in the Winter 1992 Writers of the Future contest. His first novel, Mother of Demons, was published in 1997 and was picked by the Science Fiction Chronicle as a best novel of the year. He became a full-time writer in 1999. He writes science fiction and fantasy works including The Philosophical Strangler and the Belisarius series.
(Bowker Author Biography)
