To End In Fire

To End In Fire is the fourth book in the Crown of Slaves series, written by Eric Flint and David Weber. It was published on October 5th, 2021.
Timeframe: February 1923 - July 1924 PD
== Cover Summary ==
The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson.
Obedient to the Alliance's surrender demands, the League is writing a new Constitution, to prevent the reemergence of out-of-control bureaucrats, like the "Mandarins" who led it to disaster. Frontier Security has been disbanded, the Outworlds' have regained control of their own economic destinies, and multiple star systems will soon secede from the League entirely.
Yet the League is — and will remain — the largest, most economically powerful human star nation in existence, and despite the overwhelming evidence that their unelected political leaders were the driving force behind the war, many League citizens deeply resent the fashion in which their star nation — the Solarian League — has been humbled. And those who most resent the Grand Alliance continue to blame Manticore for the nuclear bombardment of the planet Mesa after its surrender. They refuse to accept that the League — and the members of the Grand Alliance — could have been manipulated by a deeply hidden interstellar conspiracy called the Mesan Alignment. The Alignment is only an invention of the Grand Alliance, no more than a mask, a cover, for its own horrific Eridani Violations.
Those Solarians will never accept the "war guilt" of the League, because they know the Grand Alliance was just as bad. Because they deeply resent the way in which the Grand Alliance pretends to be the innocent "good guys." And in the fullness of time, those Solarians will seek vengeance upon their enemies.
Not all Solarians feel that way, but even some of those who accept that there was an interstellar conspiracy cherish doubts about its origins. But it is still out there, and now defeated Solarians and agents of the victorious Alliance must join forces to find it. Even if they don't believe in it, it believes in them.
They must find it and identify it, to prove to revanchist Solarians that there was a conspiracy.
And they must find it and destroy it to end its evil once and for all.
== Plot ==
Forthcoming...
== Background ==
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== References ==
=== Human Characters ===
Bozhidara Abadjieva | Hyndryk Abbas | Jake Abrams | Dominica Adenauer | Karoline Adebayo | Kondraty Akdag | Albescue | MÎrhem AlÎkar | Jacques Amaguq | Jacelyn Amsterdam | Michael Anderle | Marcos Antoniadou | Gervais Archer | Bernice Augenbraun | Oravil Barregos | Kayla Barrett | Skylar Beckert | Rafael Biggs | Sophie Bordás | Jonathan Braunlich | Ingemar Bukelis | Esteban Burkhanov | Victor Cachat | Petro Calasis | Harriet Caldwell | Antwone Carpinteria | Deepti Chandekar | Gabriel Chapuis | Jules Charteris | Lisa Charteris | Jackson Chicherin | Chou | Jacques Benton-Ramirez y Chou | Kondrad Chudzik | Chong Chung-Ho | Angela Clayton | Lawerence Correia | Janice Delgado | Oliver Diamato | Benjamin Detweiler | Leonard Detweiler | Gillian Drescher | Jurgen Dusek | Fanantenanirainy | Daud Ibn Mamoun al-Franudahi | Anibal Eisenberg | Ona Eriquez | Christian Espina | Simeon Gaddis | Charles E. Gannon | Gharsul | Indiana Graham | Susannah Gulo | Morris Gwaltney | Damien Harahap | Alfred Harrington | Allison Harrington | Andrew Alexander-Harrington | Hamish Alexander-Harrington | Honor Alexander-Harrington | Howard Harrington | Katherine Alexander-Harrington | Michael Harrington | Raoul Alexander-Harrington | Jacqueline Harris | Lillian Hartmann | W.E.B. Du Havel | Sonja Hemphill | Michelle Henke | Susan Hibson | Bentley Howell | Avalon Huerta | Willis Jennings | Gebhardt Juarez | Brock Justinian | Ayibongwinkosi Kabweza | Sandra Kaminisky | Nasrin Khoshkam | Winston Kingsford | Santander Konidis | Lidija Križanović | Cynthia Lecter | Anthony Lindstrom | Cáo Li-Qiang | Stilson MacDonald | Philippus Malherbe | Arianne McBryde | Jack McBryde | Zachariah McBryde | Francois McGillicuddy | Ambrose McWhirter | Andrea Merino | Jessica Milliken | Catherine Montaigne | Gunther Montalván | Giselle Montcalm | Razeen Montgomery | Theodora Moreau | Ryder Nelson | Andrea Nur | Audrey O'Hanrahan | Natsuko Okiku | Kevin Olonga | Michael Oversteegen | Thandi Palane | Brianna Pearson | Phoebe | Marjut Ranta | Elizabeth Robbins | Oscar Saint-Just | Jerzy Scarlatti | Fran Selig | Lucia Sharpe | Herlander Simões | Regan Snyder | Zoltan Somogyi | Abigail Sorokin | Jarmila Soubry | Jessica Stein | Vergel Suarez | Yon Sung-Jin | Bryce Tarkovsky | Irene Teague | Edward Tecuatl | Garlan Thwaites | Lester Tourville | Yana Tretiakovna | Jacob Trevithick | Sandra Tuminello | Gail Weiss | Hammond Whiting | Elizabeth III Winton | Ruth Winton | Cynthia X | Jeremy X | Lakshmi X | Maurice X | Nganga X | Ronglu X | Saburo X | Lang Yazhu | Zardari | Adam Zhang | Anton Zilwicki | Berry I Zilwicki | Antoine Zuraaba
=== Treecat Characters ===
Artemis | Fire Watch | Hood | Hunts Silently | Jason | Lurks in Branches I Nimitz | Poseidon | Samantha
=== Starships ===
==== Royal Manticoran Navy ====
HMLAC Despiadada | HMS Alistair McKeon | HMS Artemis | HMS Brilliant | HMS Damysus | HMS Exploratrice | HMS Hylonome | HMS Imperator | HMS Madelyn Huffman | HMS Quentin Saint-James | HMS Vigilant
==== Grayson Space Navy ====
GNS Protector Edward 
==== Imperial Andermani Navy ====
IANS Jingyi Nadelmann 
==== Solarian League Navy ====
SLNS Obdurate 
==== Royal Torch Navy ====
TRNS Bulavin | TRNS Crixus | TRNS Rei Amador | TRNS Toussaint
==== Civilian ====
Anoosheh Kashani | Avra Barbidi | Charles Davenport | Hali Sowle | Harriet Tubman | Hudson | Marzipan | Luigi Pirandello | Prince Sundjata | Teacup 
=== Space Stations ===
Balcescu Station | Station Delta | Forge One | GSNSS Francis Crick | GSNSS Irving Fischer | GSNSS Zhou Jianren | Jessyk Station | L'Ouverture Station
=== Star Systems ===
Balcescu | Congo | Cooper | Danube | Darius | Galton | Istvan | Kenniac | Landfall | Mesa | NZ-127-06 | NZ-1207-12 | Refuge | Ridnitšohkka | Sarretti | Sol | Theseus | Warner | Winepress | Yeltsin's Star
=== Planets ===
Antananarivo | Aschenputtel | Bergusia | Darius Gamma | Descombes | Earth | Grayson | Jacob | Jethro | Larkana | Mesa | Rotkäppchen | Sanctuary | Sultan | Torch | Tschermak | Wilhelm
=== Moons ===
Hole-in-the-Wall | Jackstraw
=== Cities ===
Crick City | Franklin | Green Pines | Harrington City | Leonard | Mountain Fort | Mendel | Old Chicago | Paris | Phénix Paris | Port-au-Prince | Tortuga by the Sea | Watson
=== Districts ===
Jewel | Kelly | Potosi
=== Nations ===
*Andermani Empire
*Mayan Autonomous Regional Sector
*Mesan Alignment
*Protectorate of Grayson
*Renaissance Factor
*Republic of Haven
*Solarian League
* Star Empire of Manticore
**Star Kingdom of Manticore
**Talbott Quadrant
=== Government ===
Citizens' Union
=== Military ===
Bloodhound | Bolthole | Hasta III | Lorica | Mesan Planetary Peaceforce | Operation Wilberforce | Scutum | Survey Command | Tschermak Occupation Command
=== Security Forces ===
Mesan Internal Security Directorate | Mesan Unitary Magistral Police | Whiting Security 
=== Political Groups ===
Anti-Slavery League | Engagement | Renaissance Association
=== Corporations ===
Amherst Imports and Exports | Qaisrani Consortium | Winepress Transstellar 
=== Astrography ===
Felix-Darius Hyper Bridge | Mesa-Visigoth Hyper Bridge | Warner-Mannerheim Hyper Bridge 
=== Geography ===
Avarshal Chain | Azure Ocean | Eastwind Sea | Leonard Ocean | Lincoln Island | McClintock Sea | Tortuga Bay
=== Places ===
Adam Smoltz Conference Room | Alexia Gabon Tower | Amaguq Tower | Arnold Logan Tower | Assembly Hall | Café Bilbao | Capital Spaceport | Chamber of Stars | Der Bierkeller Restaurant | Ellery Hammett Hospital | George Benton Tower | Hadcliffe Residential Tower | Harrington House | Harrington Steading | Hillary Enkateshwara Tower | Howard Clinkscales Memorial Hospital | Hugo de Vries Tower | Joint Intelligence Sharing and Distribution Command Center | Jordan Parker Greenbelt | Jordan Parker Pavilion | Lake Shore Drive | League Plaza | Lincoln Island | The Loop | Madison Grant Tower | Mandelbaum Amphitheater | Nadzieja Borowiecka Secondary School | Nakatomi Tower | Neue Rostock Tower | O'Hare Shuttle Port | Oscar Cantrell Conference Room | Roosevelt Garden | Sanger Islands | Saracen Tower | Silversmith Hotel | Singlaub Tower | Smith Tower | Smooth and Wrinkled Club | Speak Easy | Tortuga Tower | Tour D'Argent Restaurant | Varuna Tower | Xanadu Restaurant
=== Other ===
Alamo Contingency | Audubon Ballroom | Beowulf Code | Frederick Douglass Bureau | Ghost Hunters | glow-roses | Interstellar Shipping Container | Iridium Level ID | Mesan Military Administration | Mesa System Traffic Control Service | Scorpion 
== External links ==
* In January 2019, the working title revealed as Tangle of Tales at ericflint.net
* In September 2019, it was further revealed at ericflint.net that the manuscript was being written and that the working title had changed to Cloak of Evil.
*In February 2021, it was revealed on SimonandSchuster.com that the final title was To End In Fire.
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