American Freedom and Justice vs. The Tyrannies of the Seventeenth
Century The new government in central Europe, called the Confederated
Principalities of Europe, was formed by an alliance between Gustavus
Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians led by Mike Stearns
who were transplanted into 17th-century Germany by a mysterious
cosmic accident. The new regime is shaky. Outside its borders, the
Thirty Years War continues to rage. Within, it is beset by financial
crisis as well as the political and social tensions between the
democratic ideals of the 20th-century Americans and the aristocracy
which continues to rule the roost in the CPE as everywhere in Europe.
Worst of all, the CPE has aroused the implacable hostility of
Cardinal Richelieu, the effective ruler of France. Richelieu has
created the League of Ostend in order to strike at the weakest link
in the CPE's armorits dependence on the Baltic as the lifeline
between Gustav Adolf's Sweden and the rest of his realm. The greatest
naval war in European history is about to erupt. Like it or not,
Gustavus Adolphus will have to rely on Mike Stearns and the technical
wizardry of his obstreperous Americans to save the King of Sweden
from ruin. Caught in the conflagration are two American diplomatic
missions abroad: Rebecca Stearns' mission to France and Holland, and
the embassy which Mike Stearns sent to King Charles of England headed
by his sister Rita and Melissa Mailey. Rebecca finds herself trapped
in war-torn Amsterdam; Rita and Melissa, imprisoned in the Tower of
London. And much as Mike wants to transport 20th-century values into
war-torn 17th-century Europe by Sweet Reason, still he finds comfort
in the fact that Julie, who once trained to be an Olympic marksman,
still has her rifle...
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