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    Shadows of Annihilation
    Shadows of Annihilation
    Shadows of Annihilation
    Audiobook15 hours

    Shadows of Annihilation

    Written by S.M. Stirling

    Narrated by Todd McLaren

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The third novel in a World War I alternate history series where America's greatest weapon against Germany is Black Chamber secret agent Luz O'Malley and technical genius Ciara Whelan. Only they can protect America's best hope of winning the war. The Great War is at a stalemate, and the only thing stopping Germany from striking America is the threat of the United States using their own Annihilation Gas against them. But America's supply is quickly decaying and the Central Powers know it. A plant is under construction in the remote highlands of Mexico so that America can make their own supply. President Teddy Roosevelt assigns crack agent Luz O'Malley and her technical genius Ciara Whelan to watch over the plant operating under cover identities. But German agent Horst von Duckler has escaped from the POW camp in El Paso, and he's heading in the same direction--bent on revenge against Luz, and sabotage that will deprive America of its deterrent and kill tens of thousands.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 10, 2020
    ISBN9781501963797
    Shadows of Annihilation
    Author

    S.M. Stirling

    A well-regarded author of alternate history science-fiction novels, S.M. Stirling has written more than twenty-five books, including acclaimed collaborations with Anne McCaffrey, Jerry Pournelle, and David Drake. His most recent novels are T2: Infiltrator, The Peshawar Lancers, and the Island in the Sea of Time trilogy.

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    • 5/5
      "I just finished the third of S.M.Stirling's Chamberverse novels, The Shadows of Annihilation. I've read a good bit of Stirling's works and I enjoy them immensely because he never lets his Plots become more important than his bringing his worlds to FULL reality for you. From the sounds, the colours and the smells of a place, to the kind of light falling in the room, richly detailed meals that make your mouth water are detailed in a way that makes you stroll into the page completely lost to your own reality and entirely immersed in the smallest minutiae that make up the lives of his characters, be those lives verdant or bleak. There are also a lot of random bits of observation about the particular nature of humanity and our many societies always set in an alternate timeline of course, which allows us to consider new ways of looking at our own without threatening our own biases and prejudices head on (so that we may have a chance of actually seeing the flaws on our own thinking and maybe change) ALL without ever being heavily handed 'preachy.'

      Stirling doesn't at all ignore a good plot, but like real life, even in the most tumultuous times, it is all the little points of interest that make it real. No 'cliff notes' version of a novel by this author could ever give you an idea of what his books are actually about. The JOURNEY is always as important to the experience as the satisfying Epilogue tying up most loose ends after the Protagonists have achieved their goal. -Michael Eric Berube
    • 5/5
      A fitting conclusion to this excellent alt-history series. The locale changes to Mexico but the proponents stay the same. Enemies to be smitten and disasters to be averted all within an apt and interesting new world.