《The Reformer 》作者：- S. M. Stirling & David Drake【EPUB】

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Warlord S.M. Stirling and David Drake This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictionaland any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. Copyright ?? 2003 by S.M. Stirling and David Drake All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in anyform. A Baen Books Original Baen Publishing Enterprises P.O. Box 1403 Riverdale NY 10471 www.baen.com ISBN: 0-7434-3587-7 Cover art by David Mattingly First printing February 2003 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataStirling S.M. Warlord / by S.M. Stirling amp David Drake. p. cm. quotThe General series was originally published as five separate novels: The Forge The Hammer The Anvil The Steel and The Sword. Warlord contains half of the Raj Whitehall saga which will be concluded in the second omnibus volume Conqueror.quot ISBN 0-7434-3587-7 1. Life on other planets—Fiction. 2. Space warfare—Fiction. 3. Generals—Fiction. I. DrakeDavid. II. Title. PS3569.T543 W37 2003 813.54—dc21 2002034190 Distributed by Simon amp Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York NY 10020 Production by Windhaven Press Auburn NHPrinted in the United States of America The General series: Warlord with S.M. Stirling omnibus Conqueror with S.M. Stirling forthcoming The Forge with S.M. Stirling The Chosen with S.M. Stirling The Reformer with S.M. Stirling The Tyrant with Eric Flint BAEN BOOKS by DAVID DRAKE Hammers Slammers The Tank Lords Caught in the Crossfire The Butchers Bill The Sharp End Paying the Piper RCN series With the Lightnings Lt. Leary Commanding Independent Novels and Collections Seas of Venus Foreign Legions edited by David Drake Ranks of Bronze Cross the Stars The Dragon Lord Birds of Prey Northworld Trilogy Redliners Starliner All the Way to the Gallows Grimmer Than Hell The Undesired Princess and The Enchanted Bunny with L. Sprague de Camp Lest Darkness Fall and To Bring the Light with L. Sprague de Camp Armageddon edited with Billie Sue Mosiman Killer with Karl Edward Wagner The Belisarius series with Eric Flint: An Oblique Approach In the Heart of Darkness Destinys Shield Fortunes Stroke The Tide of Victory IThe Forge ?? ?? Chapter One The rat screamed. Raj Whitehall spun on one heel the beam of his carbide lamp stabbing out scarcely faster thanthe pistol in his right hand. quotShitquot he muttered as the light fell on the corner of the underground chamber. The rodent wasdead now dangling from the jaws of a cat-sized spersauroid a slinky thing with a huge headand slender body carried high on four spidery legs. It blinked at them with eyelids that closedto a vertical slit and then was gone with a rustle of scales against rubble. Raj grimaced. Oneof the few