"It isn't often you come across a book or series you recommend to everyone. This one is an exception. Buy all the Belisarius books. Read them. No",! After all, miser), loves company, and I shouldn't have to be the only one waiting this hard for number four!"
--David Weber
"The battle scenes and strategies are as expert as expected in a book with Drake's name on it. . . "
-- Publishers Weekly
Cover art by Keith Parkinson
Interior maps by Randy Asplund
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
First paperback printing, June 2000
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 0-671-57872-3
Copyright © 1999 by Eric Flint & David Drake
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Belisarius sensed a new presence and immediately understood its meaning. He saw a point of light in the void. A point, nothing more, which seemed infinitely distant. But he knew, even in the seeing, that the distance was one of time not space.