Hellfire Rebellion

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Reese Hunter had never seen a nation being born before, though he had seen more than his share of nations die. He had seen Rome sacked by Visigoths and he rode with Alexander as the Macedonian had carved his way across the ancient world. He was with Cortez when the Spanish conquistadores had descended on the unsuspecting Incas and he had watched from the cockpit of a bomber while Dresden was reduced to rubble and the Third Reich burned. He had seen governments fall and empires crumble, but he had never before witnessed a nation being born.

The English colonies in North America were about to be reborn as a new nation, and in a sense. Hunter was about to be reborn, as well. He was about to start a new life in a new universe, one that was almost a mirror image of his own. In his own universe, he had been a captain in the CIS., the elite Counter Insurgency Section of the Special Operations Group. Agents of the T.I.A. had captured him and brought him through a confluence point into their timeline. anxious to question him about the operations of his unit and, in particular, to find out how the C.I.S. had broken into their top secret Archives Section data banks. But the T.I.A. never had a chance to question him, because Hunter had stolen one of their warp discs and escaped into their past. Now there was no way back.

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