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    <body><![CDATA[Flint comes out well in this alternate history. As usual, he delights &amp; excels in the tactics used during a period of emergent gun-powder/hand-held technology. The story abounds with satisfying twists &amp; characters, male &amp; female.]]></body>
    
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