Book 24 in the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire seriesSEVEN DAYS IN MAY 1636It’s spring in Burgundy The flowers are out and so are the cardinals—of Pope Urban’s renegade papacy now on the run from the Vatican’s would-be usurper Borja Most of the Church’s senior leaders have converged upon the city of Besancon where the Pope plans to offer an ecumenical olive branch to the other Christian denominations with which Rome has been at warFortunately Urban has up-time help He can rely upon Cardinal-Protector Larry Mazzare’s theological savvy Sharon Nichols’ medical skills and her husband Ruy Sanchez’s keen-eyed experience as a body-guard-in-chief And even though Urban has a new Papal Guard in the form of Owen Rowe O’Neill’s Wild Geese Mike Stearns has loaned the Pope a small contingent of the Hibernian Battalion—just in caseWhich is prudent since Urban and his peace initiative are not merely at risk from Borja’s assassins There is another more deadly team of professional killers in town directed by the man who almost killed the Pope before lethal Spanish mastermind Pedro DolorDolor hasn’t come to confess murder—he’s come to commit itAbout the AuthorEric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the multiple New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series starting with first novel 1632 With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the “Belisarius” alternate Roman history series and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634 The Baltic War and latest Honorverse series entry Cauldron of Ghosts Flint&39;s latest Ring of Fire novel is 1636 The Ottoman Onslaught Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives near Chicago IllinoisCharles E Gannon is the author of Compton Crook Award winning Nebula nominated novels Fire with Fire Trial by Fire and Raising Caine in the Caine Riordan series He is the coauthor with Eric Flint of 1636 The Papal Stakes and 1636 Commander Cantrell in the West Indies in Eric Flint&39;s best-selling Ring of Fire series With best-selling Steve White Gannon is the coauthor of Starfire series entries Extremis and Imperative Gannon is also the author of multiple short stories He is a member of SIGMA the "SF think-tank" which has advised various intelligence and defense agencies since the start of the millennium Chuck lives near Annapolis Maryland with his wife and children