Eye of the Storm

A Message to Booksellers from New York Times Best-Selling Author John Ringo

When I walked away from the Posleen Universe after skyrocketing sales and two NYT best sellers, my readers (and my publisher and the sales reps) let out a collective cry of "Oh, John Ringo, No!" To which my response was "Feh. I can't think of any more clever ways to write 'The yellow blood splashed all over the place.' "

But now Mike O'Neal is back! And he's got all new angst, all new problems, new and old enemies and enough anger at the universe for a sentient supernova. Featuring the return of just about the entire cast from the core Posleen novels (A Hymn Before Battle, Gust Front, When the Devil Dances and Hell's Faire) as well as two collaborative spin-off series, Eye of the Storm starts with a shredding SheVa gun and a blast of antimatter. Then it gets serious.

—John Ringo

Cover Art by Kurt Miller

Hardcover
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, July 2009

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4391-3273-9
ISBN-10: 1-4391-3273-9

A Baen Books Original
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Electronic version by WebWrights
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Dedication

To Jim Baen, my mentor, my publisher and my friend.
Just trying to pay forward.

Acknowledgements:

I'd like to thank some people for their help in finally getting this novel done.

Jim Baen, deceased by three days when I finally figured out how to continue the story of Michael O'Neal. Because I swear to God I heard him say "do it this way, Johnny". This one's for you, Jim.

Miriam Sloan for back rubs, hot tea and just being her.

Rogue, Jessica and the rest of Cruxshadows.

Tom Kratman and Julie Cochrane for expanding the vision of the Aldenata universe and the characters therein. And for telling me 'It's done, John. Turn it in.'

Ben-David Singleton for actually organizing my randomized characters, systems and TOE.

The various members of RingTAB for corrections of some very obvious errors.

Conrad Chu, PhD and Doug Miller, USAR for physics and electrical help, respectively.

Now on with the show.