The Peshawar Lancers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780451458735)

In the mid-1870s, a violent spray of comets hits Earth, decimating cities, erasing shorelines, and changing the world's climate forever. And just as Earth's temperature dropped, so was civilization frozen in time. Instead of advancing technologically, humanity had to piece itself back together...

In the twenty-first century, boats still run on steam, messages arrive by telegraph, and the British Empire, with its capital now in Delhi, controls much of the world. The other major world leader is the Czar of All the Russias. Everyone predicts an eventual, deadly showdown. But no one can predict the role that one man, Captain Athelstane King, reluctant spy and hero, will play...

Author: S. M. Stirling
ISBN-10: 0451458737
ISBN-13: 9780451458735
Publisher: Ace Books
Language: English
Published: 01/07/2003
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 6.79h x 4.21w x 1.34d

Review Citation(s):
Kliatt 05/01/2003 pg. 28