{"product_id":"book-hd9e","title":"Council of Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew entry in the Dragon Award-winning Arcane America series from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling alternate history master Eric Flint.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKraken 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management)\/\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Eric Flint:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This alternate history series is...a landmark.” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[Eric] Flint's 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.” (\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[R]eads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis.” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Walter H. Hunt:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.” (\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audible","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":67914695672112,"sku":"ZEhd9e","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49354044014896,"sku":"10hd9e","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hd9e-Square-cover.webp?v=1790848073","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hd9e","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}