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Time Spike

CoverTHE DEADLIEST PREDATORS
OF THREE SEPARATE EONS

Captain Andy Blacklock was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois' maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they found that the Mississippi River had disappeared, along with all signs of civilization. Then the sun came up—in the wrong direction. And a dinosaur came by and scratched its hide against the wall of the prison ...

Something had thrown the prison back in time millions of years. And they were not alone. Other humans from periods centuries, even millennia, apart had also been dropped into the same time. Including a band of murderous conquistadores. But the prison had its own large population of murderers. They couldn't be turned loose, but what else could be done with them?

Death walked outside the walls, human savagery was planning to break loose inside, and Stephens and the other men and women of the prison's staff were trapped in the middle.

Cover Art by David Mattingly

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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, May 2008

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
 
Flint, Eric.
Time spike / Eric Flint and Marilyn Kosmatka.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-4165-5538-2 (hc)
1. Time travel—Fiction. I. Kosmatka, Marilyn. II. Title.
 
PS3556.L548T56 2008
813'.54—dc22
2008005946

Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-5538-4
ISBN-10: 1-4165-5538-2

Copyright© 2008 by Eric Flint & Marilyn Kosmatka

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.

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To Ted Kosmatka

The Ring of Fire series:

1632 by Eric Flint
1633 by Eric Flint & David Weber
1634: The Baltic War by Eric Flint & David Weber
Ring of Fire ed. by Eric Flint
1634: The Galileo Affair by Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis
Grantville Gazette ed. by Eric Flint
Grantville Gazette II ed. by Eric Flint
1634: The Ram Rebellion by Eric Flint with Virginia DeMarce et al.
1634: The Bavarian Crisis by Eric Flint with Virginia DeMarce
1635: The Cannon Law with Andrew Dennis
Grantville Gazette III ed. by Eric Flint
Ring of Fire II ed. by Eric Flint (forthcoming)
Grantville Gazette IV ed. by Eric Flint (forthcoming)

 

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