{"product_id":"book-hd9l","title":"To End in Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Crown of Slaves saga continues. Adventure and intrigue in Honor Harrington's Star Kingdom from \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling authors David Weber and Eric Flint.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObedient to the Alliance's surrender demands, the League is writing a new Constitution, to prevent the reemergence of out-of-control bureaucrats, like the \"Mandarins\" who led it to disaster. Frontier Security has been disbanded, the outer worlds have regained control of their own economic destinies, and multiple star systems will soon secede from the League entirely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet the League is—and will remain—the largest, most economically powerful human star nation in existence, and despite the overwhelming evidence that their unelected political leaders were the driving force behind the war, many League citizens deeply resent the fashion in which their star nation—the Solarian League—has been humbled. And those who most resent the Grand Alliance continue to blame Manticore for the nuclear bombardment of the planet Mesa after its surrender. They refuse to accept that the League—and the members of the Grand Alliance—could have been manipulated by a deeply hidden interstellar conspiracy called the Mesan Alignment. The Alignment is only an invention of the Grand Alliance, no more than a mask, a cover, for its own horrific Eridani Violations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose Solarians will never accept the war guilt of the League, because they know the Grand Alliance was just as bad. Because they deeply resent the way in which the Grand Alliance pretends to be the innocent \"good guys.\" And in the fullness of time, those Solarians will seek vengeance upon their enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot all Solarians feel that way, but even some of those who accept that there was an interstellar conspiracy cherish doubts about its origins. But it is still out there, and now defeated Solarians and agents of the victorious Alliance must join forces to find it. Even if they don't believe in it, it believes in them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey must find it and identify it, to prove to revanchist Solarians that there was a conspiracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd they must find it and destroy it to end its evil once and for all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Crown of Slaves Honorverse Series:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrown of Slaves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTorch of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCauldron of Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audible","offers":[{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":67914696524080,"sku":"ZEhd9l","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD [10]","offer_id":49355677368624,"sku":"10hd9l","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hd9l-Square-cover.webp?v=1790848082","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hd9l","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}