There Will Be Dragons Volume 1

In the future there is no want, no war, no

disease nor ill-timed death. The world is a paradise—and then, in a

moment, 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 left

wondering how to survive.

But

scattered across the face of the Earth are communities that have returned to the

natural life of soil and small farm. In the village of Raven's Mill, Edmund

Talbot, master smith and unassuming historian, finds that all the problems of

the world are falling in his lap. Refugees are flooding in, bandits are roaming

the woods, and his former lover and his only daughter struggle through the

fallen landscape. Enemies, new and old, gather like jackals around a wounded

lion.

But what the jackals do not know

is that while old he may be, this lion is far from death. And hidden in the past

is a mystery that has waited until this time to be revealed. You cross Edmund

Talbot at your peril, for a smith is not all he once was. . .

.

About John

Ringo:

“. . . the thinking

reader’s zombie novel . . . Ringo fleshes out his theme with convincing

details . . . the proceedings become oddly

plausible.”—Publishers Weekly on Under a

Graveyard

Sky

“[Ringo’s work is]

peopled with three-dimensional characters and spiced with personal drama as well

as tactical finesse.”—Library

Journal

“Explosive . .

. fans . . . will appreciate Ringo’s lively narrative and flavorful

characters.”—Publishers

Weekly

“. . . practically

impossible not to read in one sitting . . . exceedingly impressive . . .

executed with skill, verve, and

wit.”—Booklist

“Crackerjack

storytelling.”—Starlog