Rise of the Order

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I would like to thank the people of Magdeburg and Bernburg, Germany. In researching this book, I found out a great deal of my own Prussian past, and was able to visit the last known address of my Grandfather, a German Army officer who had survived trench warfare in World War I before emigrating to America. Also thanks to the cities of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague, for providing excellent food and beer and a great setting for this book. I hope I didn’t completely destroy the serenity of the Austrian Alps, one of my favorite places on Earth. A special thanks to the Teutonic Order. I meant no disrespect to this fine Order.

Europe had changed. Jake Adams knew that much. Gone were the pristine narrow streets lined with three hundred year old buildings leading to six hundred year old cathedrals. Now the streets were invariably littered with trash and the buildings tagged with Europe’s version of gang markings — ornately swirling messages in red or black or white — the culprits skinheads, anarchists, or simply disenfranchised foreign youth with too much time on their hands. Jobs gone to the more recently arrived.

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