The Crucible of Empire

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The intricate and action-packed sequel to New York Times best-seller Eric Flint (with 3 million books in print ) and K.D. Wentworth ground-breaking Course of Empire with cool aliens. lt The intricate and action-packed sequel to New York Times best-seller and master tale-spinner Eric Flint and K.D. Wentworth ground-breaking Course of Empire.Humanity is first subjugated by haughty alien colonizers calling themselves the Jao when Earth is unexpectedly attacked by the implacable and nearly-unstoppable Ekhat, exterminators of all intelligent life not their own. Now the fragile Human-Jao alliance is put to the test. A devastating encounter with the Ekhat in a distant nebula reveals a powerful alien society that may hold the key to defeating the Ekhat once and for all. There one big problem: they utterly loathe humanity’s ally, the Jao. And why shouldnrsquo;t they? It was the Jao who drove them into hiding in the first place. Once again, everything depends on those innovators and idea-generators, the humans, to quell a brewing war and forge a tripartite alliance of very different species or be blasted to empty cinders if they donrsquo;t succeed.About Course of Empire by Eric Flint K.D. Wentworth Building to an exhilarating conclusion, this book cries out for a sequel. Publishers WeeklyAbout Eric Flint bestselling Ring of Fire series:lt ;reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis Publishers Weekly ;each new entry appears better than the previous one, a seemingly impossible feat ;terrific. Midwest Book Review [C]ombines accurate historical research with bold leaps of the imagination. Library Journal

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