The Fourth Rome (42 page)

Drake has a wife, a son, and various pets. He lives in a new house on 22 acres in Chatham County, North Carolina, where he
feeds sun-flower seeds to the birds.

J
ANET
M
ORRIS
is Vice President of Morris & Morris, a private consultancy specializing in new defense technology and non-lethal warfare.
She is a Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. She has participated in several
unprecedented U.S./Russian technology exchanges, in collaboration with David Drake, she has written
Active Measures
and
Kill Ratio,
among other novels. With her husband, Chris Morris, she has written
The American Warrior
and other titles. She is also the author of the
Tempus
series.

“FIRST RATE. A THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE, ROUSING ADVENTURE OUTSIDE TIME.”

—
Science Fiction Chronicle on Arc Riders

Elite 26th-century commandos, the ARC Riders patrol time to protect all human history…

WE WILL BURY YOU

As the USSR crumbles, Russian hardliners jump from 1991 to A.D. 9, when their modern weapons can warp the course of the Roman
Empire and create a world ruled by the Kremlin—using time technology that doesn’t exist in the 20th century…or the 26th!

To solve the mystery, the Riders must split into teams separated by millennia. And while three Riders are trapped between
the Roman legions and a blood-maddened barbarian horde, their comrades are at war on the Moscow streets. And fighting an inconceivable
enemy.

D
AVID
D
RAKE
, author of
Hammer’s Stammers
, and J
ANET
M
ORRIS
, Adjunct Fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and author of
The American Warrior
, join talents for Arc Riders, the most exciting time war series in years.