There Will Be Dragons

In the future there is no want, no war, nodisease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in amoment, it ends. The council that controls the Net falls out and goes to war. Everywhere, people who have never known a moment of want or pain are leftwondering how to survive. Butscattered across the face of the Earth are communities that have returned to thenatural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, EdmundTalbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems ofthe world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roamingthe woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through thefallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a woundedlion. But what the jackals do not knowis that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the pastis a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross EdmundTalbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was. . . . About JohnRingo:“. . . the thinkingreader’s zombie novel . . . Ringo fleshes out his theme with convincingdetails . . . the proceedings become oddlyplausible.”—Publishers Weekly on Under aGraveyardSky“[Ringo’s work is]peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as wellas tactical finesse.”—LibraryJournal“Explosive . . . fans . . . will appreciate Ringo’s lively narrative and flavorfulcharacters.”—PublishersWeekly“. . . practicallyimpossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . . executed with skill, verve, andwit.”—Booklist“Crackerjackstorytelling.”—Starlog