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Council of Fire

By: Eric Flint, Walter H. Hunt
Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
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New entry in the Dragon Award-winning Arcane America series from New York Times best-selling alternate history master Eric Flint.

The passage of Halley’s Comet in 1759 is catastrophic. The comet appears to strike the Earth, sundering the New World from the Old. A chain of mountains rises in the Mid-Atlantic. No ship from the Old World arrives in America. No ship from the New World can find a passage to the Old - and most who try simply disappear.

The comet has also unleashed magic forces, which soon spread everywhere. Slaves begin using powers derived from African witchcraft, bringing monsters from that continent into the New World. The native tribes begin doing the same. Some European settlers devise ways to couple Old World technology with sorcery.

Kraken in the Atlantic, revenants in Jamaica, Dry Hands and Floating Heads in the Hudson valley, African ogres and worse set loose in the streets of New York. Magic of all kinds, emerging everywhere, most of it poorly if at all controlled.

The powerful Iroquois Confederacy disintegrates. The Onondaga Council Fire is extinguished; the Seneca and Cayuga follow their own shaman and war leader, and the Mohawks ally with the English.

For their part, the English and the French in North America, who had been on the brink of war when the Sundering came, now have to contemplate what would once have been unthinkable. They must not simply forge a military alliance against the rising dark powers but may even have to unite politically behind the young English prince Edward, now the only person of royal blood left in the terrifying world created by the Sundering.

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About Eric Flint:

“This alternate history series is...a landmark.” (Booklist)

“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.” (Booklist)

“[R]eads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis.” (Publishers Weekly)

About Walter H. Hunt:

"A compelling and immersive novel in which every word feels authentic and every chapter draws the reader deeper into the dark and terrifying power of the mind.” (New York Journal of Books)

©2019 Eric Flint and Walter H. Hunt (P)2021 Audible, Inc.
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Now this is an alternate history

My problem with the first book is that it was close enough to actual events to feel less like an alternate history and more like a secret history. Here, you cannot make such an argument; a British prince becomes America's first national leader, French, British, and Native peoples come together in common cause, and the groundwork for a potentially greater nation is laid. If this were the first book in the series and each subsequent book used it as a foundation or was a direct sequel, I would’ve been all over it like I was for many of the Ring of Fire novels. Although I do need to wonder why there wasn't any field artillery at the final battle.

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Inventive

A very inventive story and characters based upon historical figures in colonial times and a few twists to make things different.

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