- Book #14 of Eric Flint's New York Times and Wall Street Journal
best-selling alternate history series, Ring of Fire.- Eddie Cantrell, now married to the king of Denmark’s daughter, is sent
by Admiral Simpson to the Caribbean to secure access to the most valuable
commodity on that continent — not the gold and silver which the Spanish
treasure, but the oil which up-time machines and industry need. The admiral has
also provided Eddie’s small task force with the new steam-powered frigates
that have just come out of the navy’s shipyards. Even with the frigates, a
giant obstacle stands in his way: the Gulf-girdling Spanish presence in the New
World. So a diversion is needed, carried out by an up-time car mechanic and a
down-time mercenary colonel who also happens to be the last earl of Ireland.
Their mission: grab the oil fields on Trinidad, and so distract the attention of
Spain’s New World governors.
- ISBN10 1476780609
- ISBN13 9781476780603
- Publish Date 15 June 2015 (first published 23 June 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Baen Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 848
- Language English