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 Sentry Peak THE STRANGEST CIVIL WAR?NOVEL YOU EVER READ! When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. The northern provinces, where most of the serfs lived, would not accept his lordship. The hot north was a land of broad estates, whose noble overlords took the serfs’ labor and gave back next to nothing. Those provinces left Detina, choosing Avram’s cousin, Grand Duke Geoffrey, as their king in his place. Avram said he had inherited all of the kingdom, not just a part. He refused to let Geoffrey rule the north without a challenge. And the southron provinces, full of merchants and smallholders stood solidly behind him. So he sent armies clad in gray against the north. Geoffrey raised his own army, and arrayed his men in blue made from the indigo much raised on northern estates to distinguish them from the southrons. Avram held the larger part of the kingdom, and the wealthier part, too. But Geoffrey’s men were bolder soldiers. And the north, taken all in all, had better wizards than the southrons did. The war raged for almost three years, until Avram’s General named Guildenstern and his great lieutenant, Doubting George, moved against the northern army under Count Thraxton the Braggart and his commander of unicorn-riders, Ned of the Forest, which held the town of Rising Rock, close by Sentry Peak. . . . Cover art by Carol Heyer  ]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, September 2000 Distributed by Simon Schuster1230 Avenue of the AmericasNew York Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 0-671-57887-1 Copyright ? 2000 by Harry Turtledove All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. A Baen Books OriginalBaen Publishing EnterprisesP.O. Box 1403Riverdale, NY 10471 Typeset by Windhaven