Changes: To End In Fire

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Name:	To End In Fire
Author:	David Weber Eric Flint
Publisher:	Baen Books
Series:	Crown of Slaves
Previous:	Cauldron of Ghosts

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

Forthcoming...

References

Human Characters

Treecat Characters

Starships

Star Systems

Planets

Space Stations

Cities

Nations

Government

Citizens' Union |

Security Forces

Mesan Internal Security Directorate | Mesan Unitary Magistral Police | Whiting Security |

Political Groups

Anti-Slavery League | Engagement | Renaissance Association |

Corporations

Qaisrani Consortium |

Astrography

Felix-Darius Hyper Bridge | Mesa-Visigoth Hyper Bridge | Warner-Mannerheim Hyper Bridge |

Geography

Leonard Ocean | Lincoln Island | McClintock Sea | Tortuga Bay |

Places

Other

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.

Main Honor Harrington series
HH1	On Basilisk Station	HH8	Echoes of Honor
HH2	The Honor of the Queen	HH9	Ashes of Victory
HH3	The Short Victorious War	HH10	War of Honor
HH4	Field of Dishonor	HH11	At All Costs
HH5	Flag in Exile	HH12	Mission of Honor
HH6	Honor Among Enemies	HH13	A Rising Thunder
HH7	In Enemy Hands	HH14	Uncompromising Honor
Spin off Series
Crown of Slaves		Star Kingdom
CS1	Crown of Slaves	SK1	A Beautiful Friendship
CS2	Torch of Freedom	SK2	Fire Season
CS3	Cauldron of Ghosts	SK3	Treecat Wars
CS4	To End In Fire	SK4	A New Clan
Saganami Island		Manticore Ascendant
SI1	The Shadow of Saganami	MA1	A Call to Duty
SI2	Storm from the Shadows	MA2	A Call to Arms
SI3	Shadow of Freedom	MA3	A Call to Vengeance
SI4	Shadow of Victory	MA4	A Call to Insurrection
Expanded Honorverse
EH1	Toll of Honor
Anthologies
HHA1	More Than Honor	HHA5	In Fire Forged
HHA2	Worlds of Honor	HHA6	Beginnings
HHA3	Changer of Worlds	HHA7	What Price Victory?
HHA4	The Service of the Sword
Tales of Honor Comic Series
TOH1	Tales of Honor #1	TOH4	Tales of Honor #4
TOH2	Tales of Honor #2	TOH5	Tales of Honor #5
TOH3	Tales of Honor #3	TOHV1	Tales of Honor Vol 1

Honorverse Non-Fiction
Book Companions		Ad Astra Companions
HOS	House of Steel Companion	SOTF	Ships of the Fleet Calendars
HOSH	House of Shadows Companion	SITS	Saganami Island Tactical Simulator
HOL	House of Lies Companion
Jayne's Intelligence Review		Jayne's Fighting Ships of the Galaxy
JIR1	The Royal Manticoran Navy	SB1	Ship Book 1: The Havenite Sector
JIR2	The Havenite Republican Navy	SB2	Ship Book 2: The Silesian Confederacy
JIR3	The Silesian Confederate Navy	SB3	Ship Book 3: The Short Victorious War

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+<br />{{Book|image = [[File:ToEndInFire.jpg|225px]]|name = ''To End In Fire''|author = [[David Weber]]<br/>[[Eric Flint]]|series = Crown of Slaves|previous = ''[[Cauldron of Ghosts]]''|publisher = [[Baen Books]]}}
-'''''Cloak of Evil'' '''(formerly '''''Tangle of Tales''''') is the working title for the fourth book in the ''Crown of Slaves'' series, written by [[Eric Flint]] and [[David Weber]].
+'''''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: Unknown
+Timeframe: February 1923 - July 1924 PD
 == Cover Summary ==
+''The Solarian League lies in defeat, crushed by the Grand Alliance of Manticore, Haven, and Grayson.''
-Forthcoming...
+''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 ==
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 == References ==
-Forthcoming...
+=== Human Characters ===
+[[Jake Abrams]] | [[Dominica Adenauer]] | [[Karoline Adebayo]] | [[Jacques Amaguq]] | [[Michael Anderle]] | [[Gervais Archer]] | [[Bernice Augenbraun]] |  [[Oravil Barregos]] | [[Kayla Barrett]] | [[Skylar Beckert]] | [[Ingemar Bukelis]] | [[Esteban Burkhanov]] | [[Victor Cachat]] | [[Harriet Caldwell]] | [[Antwone Carpinteria]] | [[Jules Charteris]] | [[Lisa Charteris]] | [[Jackson Chicherin]] | [[Hauptmann Chou]] | [[Jacques Chou|Jacques Benton-Ramirez y Chou]] | [[Lawerence Correia]] | [[Janice Delgado]] | [[Oliver Diamato]] | [[Benjamin Detweiler]] | [[Leonard Detweiler]] | [[Gillian Drescher]] | [[Jurgen Dusek]] | [[Daud al-Fanudahi|Daud Ibn Mamoun al-Franudahi]] | [[Charles E. Gannon (Solarian League)|Charles E. Gannon]] | [[Indiana Graham]] | [[Damien Harahap]] | [[Alfred Harrington]] | [[Allison Chou Harrington|Allison Harrington]] | [[Andrew Alexander-Harington]] | [[Hamish Alexander-Harrington]] | [[Honor Harrington|Honor Alexander-Harrington]] | [[Howard Harrington]] | [[Katherine Alexander-Harrington]] | [[Michael Harrington]] | [[Raoul Alexander-Harrington]] | [[Lillian Hartmann]] | [[W.E.B. Du Havel]] | [[Michelle Henke]] | [[Susan Hibson]] | [[Bentley Howell]] | [[Avalon Huerta]] | [[Willis Jennings]] | [[Gebhardt Juarez]] | [[Sandra Kaminisky]] | [[Winston Kingsford]] | [[Cynthia Lecter]] | [[Anthony Lindstrom]] | [[Arianne McBryde]] | [[Jack McBryde]] | [[Zachariah McBryde]] | [[François McGillicuddy|Francois McGillicuddy]] | [[Jessica Milliken]] | [[Catherine Montaigne]] | [[Gunther Montalván]] | [[Audrey O'Hanrahan]] | [[Natsuko Okiku]] | [[Kevin Olonga]] | [[Michael Oversteegen]] | [[Thandi Palane]] | [[Brianna Pearson]] | [[Elizabeth Robbins]] | [[Oscar Saint-Just]] | [[Jerzy Scarlatti]] | [[Fran Selig]] | [[Lucia Sharpe]] | [[Herlander Simões]] | [[Regan Snyder]] | [[Zoltan Somogyi]] | [[Jarmila Soubry]] | [[Vergel Suarez]] |  [[Bryce Tarkovsky]] | [[Irene Teague]] | [[Edward Tecuatl]] | [[Lester Tourville]] | [[Yana Tretiakovna]] | [[Jacob Trevithick]] | [[Sandra Tuminello]] | [[Gail Weiss]] | [[Ruth Winton]] | [[Hammond Whiting]] | [[Jeremy X]] | [[Nganga X]] | [[Ronglu X]] | [[Saburo X]] | [[Zardari]] | [[Anton Zilwicki]] | [[Berry I Zilwicki]] | [[Antoine Zuraaba]] |
+=== Treecat Characters ===
+[[Fire Watch]] | [[Hunts Silently]] | [[Jason (treecat)|Jason]] | [[Lurks in Branches]] I [[Nimitz]] | [[Poseidon]] | [[Samantha (treecat)|Samantha]]
+=== Starships ===
+[[Anoosheh Kashani|''Anoosheh Kashani'']] | [[Charles Davenport|''Charles Davenport'']] | [[Harriet Tubman (starship)|''Harriet Tubman'']] | [[HMS Alistair McKeon|HMS ''Alistair McKeon'']] | [[HMS Artemis (Nike class)|HMS ''Artemis'']] | [[HMS Exploratrice|HMS ''Exploratrice'']] | [[HMS Imperator|HMS ''Imperator'']] | [[Luigi Pirandello|''Luigi Pirandello'']] | [[Prince Sundjata|''Prince Sundjata'']] | [[SLNS Obdurate|SLNS ''Obdurate'']] | [[TRNS Rei Amador|TRNS ''Rei Amador'']] |
+=== Star Systems ===
+[[Balcescu System|Balcescu]] | [[Congo System|Congo]] | [[Galton]] | [[Istvan System|Istvan]] | [[Mesa System|Mesa]] | [[NZ-127-06]] | [[NZ-127-12]] | [[Refuge System|Refuge]] | [[Sol System|Sol]] | [[Warner System|Warner]] | [[Yeltsin's Star System|Yeltin's Star]] |
+=== Planets ===
+[[Darius Gamma]] | [[Earth]] | [[Grayson (planet)|Grayson]] | [[Hole in the Wall]] | [[Jethro]] | [[Larkana]] | [[Mesa (planet)|Mesa]] | [[Sanctuary (planet)|Sanctuary]] | [[Sultan]] | [[Torch]] | [[Tschermak]] |
+=== Space Stations ===
+[[Balcescu Station]] | [[Delta Station]] | [[Forge One]] | [[GSNSS Francis Crick|GSNSS ''Francis Crick'']] | [[Jessyk Station]] | [[L'Ouverture Station|''L'Ouverture Station'']] |
+=== Cities ===
+[[Green Pines]] | [[Harrington City]] | [[Leonard (city)|Leonard]] | [[Mendel]] | [[Chicago|Old Chicago]] | [[Port-au-Prince]] | [[Tortuga by the Sea]] |
+=== Nations ===
+*[[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]] |
+=== Security Forces ===
+[[Mesan Internal Security Directorate]] | [[Mesan Unitary Magistral Police]] | [[Whiting Security]] |
+=== Political Groups ===
+[[Anti-Slavery League]] | [[Engagement]] | [[Renaissance Association]] |
+=== Corporations ===
+[[Qaisrani Consortium]] |
+=== Astrography ===
+[[Felix-Darius Hyper Bridge]] | [[Mesa-Visigoth Hyper Bridge]] | [[Mannerheim-Warner Hyper Bridge|Warner-Mannerheim Hyper Bridge]] |
+=== Geography ===
+[[Leonard Ocean]] | [[Lincoln Island]] | [[McClintock Sea]] | [[Tortuga Bay]] |
+=== Places ===
+[[Alexia Gabon Tower]] | [[Amaguq Tower]] | [[Assembly Hall]] | [[Capital Spaceport]] | [[Chamber of Stars]] | [[Collin McLeod Tower]] | [[Ellery Hammett Hospital]] | [[George Benton 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 Pavilion]] | [[League Plaza]] | [[Madison Grant Tower]] | [[Nakatomi Tower]] | [[Neue Rostock Tower]] | [[Sanger Islands]] | [[Saracen Tower]] | [[Singlaub Tower]] | [[Smith Tower]] | [[Smooth and Wrinkled Club]] | [[Speak Easy]] | [[Tortuga Tower]] |
+=== Other ===
+[[Alamo Contingency]] | [[Audubon Ballroom]] | [[Beowulf Code]] | [[Ghost Hunters]] | [[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 [https://www.ericflint.net/index.php/forthcoming/ ericflint.net]
-* In September  2019, it was further revealed at [https://www.ericflint.net/index.php/forthcoming/ ericflint.net] that the manuscript was being written and that the working title had changed to '''''Cloak of Evil'''''.
+* In September 2019, it was further revealed at [https://www.ericflint.net/index.php/forthcoming/ 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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