1635: Papal Stakes
“1635: Papal Stakes” by Eric Flint is an illustrated edition published by Baen on August 27, 2013, featuring 944 pages in English. This installment in the Ring of Fire series continues the saga of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia, as its citizens navigate the complexities of 17th-century Europe. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue and turmoil, the story follows uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant wife, Giovanna, as they become entangled in the power struggles surrounding the Papal succession and the notorious Borgia family.
Readers will find a blend of action and adventure as rescue teams, including Harry Lefferts and his Wrecking Crew, converge on Rome to assist Frank and Giovanna. The narrative unfolds with themes of freedom and resistance, as the characters confront papal assassins and aristocratic machinations. This edition offers a rich exploration of alternative history, immersing readers in a world where modern citizens influence the course of history during a pivotal moment in Europe.
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A new addition to the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series. After carving a place for itself in
war-torn 17th century Europe, citizens of the modern town of Grantville, West Virginia take on the Borgias and Papal succession shenanigans that could undermine a Spring of freedom that has come to Europe three centuries early.
#15 in the multiple bestselling Ring of Fire Series.
It’s springtime in the Eternal City, 1635. But it’s no Roman holiday for uptimer Frank Stone and his pregnant
downtime wife, Giovanna. They’re in the clutches of would-be Pope Cardinal Borgia, with the real Pope–Urban VII –on the run with the renegade embassy of uptime Ambassador Sharon Nichols and her swashbuckling downtime husband, Ruy Sanchez de Casador y Ortiz. Up to their necks in papal assassins, power politics, murder, and mayhem, the uptimers and their spouses need help and they need it quickly.
Special rescue teams–including Harry Lefferts and his infamous Wrecking Crew–converge on Rome to extract Frank and Gia. And an uptime airplane is on its way to spirit the Pope to safety before Borja’s assassins can find him. It seems that everything is going to work out just fine in sunny Italy.
Until, that is, everything goes wrong. Now, whether they are prisoners in Rome or renegades protecting a pope on the run, it’s up to the rough and ready can-do attitude of Grantville natives to once again escape the clutches of aristocratic skullduggery and ring in freedom for a war-torn land.
About Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series:
“This alternate history series is…a landmark…”—Booklist
“[Eric] Flint’s 1632 universe seems to be inspiring a whole new crop of gifted alternate historians.”—Booklist
“…reads like a technothriller set in the age of the Medicis…”—Publishers Weekly
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