1635: The Dreeson Incident

2008 novel by Eric Flint August 2015 1635: The Dreeson Incident 1635 The Dreeson Incident-Eric Flint.jpg Virginia DeMarce andEric Flint(series creator and editor) Tom Kidd United States English 1632 series Alternate history, science fiction Baen Books December 16, 2008 Print (hardback) 1-4165-5589-7 813/.54 22 PS3556.L548 A61865 2008 209699884 1634: The Bavarian CrisisThe Anaconda ProjectRing of Fire II 1635: The Tangled Web 1635: The Dreeson Incident, published in 2008, is a novel in the alternate history 1632 series, written by Virginia DeMarce and Eric Flint, as a sequel to Flint's novella 1634: The Bavarian Crisis.http://www.uchronia.net/label/flinassiti.html Uchronia: The Assiti Shards (1632) Series www.uchronia.net Plot summary The novel takes place after the events of 1634: The Galileo Affair, and 1635: The Cannon Law in which French Huguenot extremist Michel Ducos came close to assassinating Pope Urban VIII and forced to flee with his followers from Rome. The leaders of the French Huguenot group under Ducos settled in Scotland making plans to embarrass Cardinal Richelieu. Michel also has left strict instructions for several of his followers, led by Guillaume Locquifier, in Frankfurt to do nothing until he gives them new orders. Meanwhile, Duke Henri de Rohan, the highest ranking Huguenot, has his own group of agents monitoring events throughout Europe. He also would like to see Richelieu removed from office, but he views the radical actions of Ducos as self-defeating. After having learning the events in Rome, Henri writes letters to his agents in Grantville, Frankfurt and elsewhere warning of the escape of Ducos and ordering them to notify him if Ducos appears. Rohan has two double agents working within the Ducos operation. Jacques-Pierre Dumais is one of the double agents working for the Duke, who works in Grantville as a garbage collector while secretly examining 20th century knowledge discarded by the American residents. Spymaster Francisco Nasi has also been trying to track down Ducos. His agents and others have been sending reports on activities in Grantville and elsewhere within the State of Thuringia-Franconia. In the midst of this, the United States of Europe elections are taking place. Incumbent Prime Minister Mike Stearns is sure that his political party will lose, but figures that his opponent William Wettin will overextend himself and his respective Crown Loyalists party. Ducos' Huguenots in Frankfurt plan a demonstration and action in Grantville to vilify Richelieu by plotting assassinations on Grantville's powerful figures: Mayor Henry Dreeson and Presbyterian minister Enoch Wiley (as attempts on individuals such as Mike Stearns and Gustavus Adolphus remain impossible to do). The assassinations are successfully carried out during several manipulated demonstrations against vaccination and autopsies through down-timers and an anti-Semitic incident at Grantville's synagogue as covers for the assassination. In the aftermath, the results do not come out as the Huguenots had planned: Nasi, Stearns, and several others figure out the cause for the assassinations. They and other like-minded individuals are shocked by the provocative actions of the anti-Semites and decide to use the incident to justify the total eradication of all antisemitic forces in the area controlled by Grantville's allies. Reception April 2011 The book received mixed to negative reviews from readers.http://www.billionlightyearbookshelf.com/reviews/1635dreesonincident.shtml 1635: The Dreeson Incident The Billion Light-Year Bookshelf February 18, 2009 Leigh Kimmel A reviewer for SFRevu liked the book, but wrote that "it is easy to get drawn in by these characters, although sometimes it is hard to keep track of all the subplots that have developed".http://www.sfrevu.com/php/Review-id.php?id=7937 1635: The Dreeson Incident (The Ring of Fire) by Eric Flint SFRevu 2 December 2008 Bill Lawhorn Library Journal gave a more positive review by saying that the authors "keeps the action moving and the history honest as ordinary citizens of the 20th century bring their skills and their hopes to a dark time in European history."http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/35722165/1635-dreeson-incident https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220113/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/35722165/1635-dreeson-incident dead 3 March 2016 1635: The Dreeson Incident Cassada Jackie Library Journal 1 December 2008 133 20 116 0363-0277 Alternate Link via EBSCO (institutional library access). The reviewer for Booklist wrote that this book is a "solid addition to the Ring of Fire alternate history saga."http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/34680577/1635-dreeson-incident https://web.archive.org/web/20160303235452/http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/book-reviews/34680577/1635-dreeson-incident dead 3 March 2016 1635: The Dreeson Incident Green Roland Booklist 1 October 2008 105 3 32 0006-7385 Alternate Link via EBSCO (institutional library access). 1635: The Dreeson Incident was listed on the Locus Hardcovers Bestsellers List for a single month in 2009, at number 5.http://www.locusmag.com/2009/Issue03_LocusBestsellers.html Locus Bestsellers, March 2009 Locus March 2009 References External links 873583 1635: The Dreeson Incident collapsed Category:1632 series Category:2008 American novels Category:2008 English-language novels Category:Novels by Eric Flint Category:Works set in 1635 Category:Novels set in the 1630s