THE GODS RETURN – snippet 3:
CHAPTER ONE
Cashel carried Rasile in the crook of his arm up the last few tens of steps to the top of the fire tower, the highest point in Pandah. The old wizard's people, the Coerli–the catmen–held the physically weak and aged in contempt even if they happened to be wizards.
STORM FROM THE SHADOWS – snippet 31:
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Milady," he assured her.
"A lawyer, and tactful, too," Michelle observed, and nodded her head at Lieutenant Archer. "My Lord, Commander, this is Gwen Archer, my flag lieutenant."
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Chapter 15
Frankfurt am Main
“Solch eine Schlamperei!” Johann Wilhelm Dilich was screaming at the top of his lungs.
SLOW TRAIN FROM ARCTURUS – snippet 52:
Lani looked at her gentle giant. He was an idiot, besides being confused about his status as her man. He'd also waded into a pack of wild ones for her. And then stopped her blowing one of them away. She might just understand him, one day. She was beginning to think it might just be worth waiting for, aside from the physical gratification.
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Chapter Eight
Michelle accepted her beret from Master Steward Billingsley and started to turn towards the door and the waiting Admiralty air car when she paused suddenly.
"And what, Master Steward, might that be?" she asked.
THE GODS RETURN – snippet 2:
"Anoch anoch iao!" Salmson said. He stabbed the rooster with his athame. The edge of the ivory knife wasn't keen enough to slice flesh, but its point could split a bird's chest. Blood followed as he withdrew the blade, splashing the stone and his arm to the elbow.
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Haarlem, Netherlands
Laurent Mauger surveyed his warehouse with pride.
Excusable pride, he thought. He had built a business that supported his entire family. Supported it well. Not to mention, employed most of it.
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Outside was dim. A number of the light-emitters were missing and the place was full of shadows and… people. Mostly short men—but there was a surprise too. A strange woman and Kretz in a car, with a woman beside it, swinging her nightstick in a defensive arc.
THE GODS RETURN – snippet 1:
THE GODS RETURN
by David Drake
DEDICATION
To Dan Breen
As sort of a bookend, for making this series much better than it would've been without his help.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
When I'm deep into writing a novel, everything else sort of blurs. On my own, I'd eat whatever's simplest to grab. I don't have much sense of serial time on my best day, and when the book takes over I'm likely to be off by a week or more on when things have to be done. The fact that things (this includes sending in the taxes and paying bills) are done and I'm fed excellent, healthy meals, is due to the efforts of my wife Jo.
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Chapter 14
Scotland
The news of an official peace treaty between Gustavus Adolphus and the king in the Netherlands had not improved Antoine Delerue’s mood. The arrangements between the Swede and Denmark the previous summer had been bad enough, but this was appalling.
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