1634: THE BALTIC WAR — snippet 1
CAUTIONARY NOTE:
I’m going to start snippeting THE BALTIC WAR today, and I’ll be following the usual schedule of snippeting on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Everyone should consider this a rough draft, however. This first part is finished and, I believe, generally in very good shape. But neither Dave Weber nor Toni Weisskopf have looked at the manuscript yet, and it’s possible they’ll want some changes or additions, or whatever. I doubt if there’ll be anything major, but you never know.
So, no promises that the final book text will be identical to this draft. Still, it should be as close as most manuscripts I’ve snippeted.
Eric
1634: The Baltic War
by
Eric Flint & David Weber
PART I
A mist that is like blown snow is sweeping over all
December, 1633
Chapter 1
Hans Richter Field
Near Grantville, in the State of Thuringia
Colonel Jesse Wood turned off the computer in his office, removed the floppy disk and carefully slid it into its protective sleeve. It was a copy of the original disk he had already placed in an envelope and addressed to Mike Stearns, the Prime Minister of the United States of Europe. The copy itself was destined for Admiral John Simpson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Naval Operations, and one of the chief architects of the new nation’s growing industrial capability in Magdeburg.