FIRST-TIME in Paperback for This Exciting Installment in the New York Instances Best-Selling Ring of Fire Series- The Most Popular and Best-Selling Alternate History Series. The Thirty Years Battle is constantly on the ravage 17th hundred years Europe, but a fresh force can be gathering power and impact: the United States of Europe, a fresh nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, Ruler of Sweden, as well as the Western Virginians from your 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries in to the past with a mystical cosmic about 1635: The Dreeson Occurrence accident. While the old entrenched rulers and manipulators continue steadily to plot from this fresh upstart nation, everyday life continues on in Grantville, the town lost in time, with librarians, firefighters, and garbage collectors trying to make do under uncommon conditions. And what better place for an undercover spy from France than working with the garbage enthusiasts, examining 20th hundred years devices that others get rid of, and duplicating the technology (though he wishes one device-the paper shredder-had been left out in the future). There are more sinister providers at work, nevertheless. One of these, Ducos, almost succeeded in assassinating the Pope, but his strategy was ruined by quick action by a few Americans. Now, the would-be assassin not merely has a score to stay, but has also decided on two excellent targets: Grantville’s head Mike Stearns and his wife Rebecca . .