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In the Heart of Darkness
by Eric Flint & David Drake

[this book ripped from Baen Free Library. Please go to
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this
book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely
coincidental.

Copyright (c) 1998 by Eric Flint & David Drake

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions
thereof in any form.

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
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ISBN: 0-671-87885-9

Cover art by David Mattingly

First printing, August 1998



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To Kathy and Laura


Prologue
When the lavish dinner was finished, and the servants sent away, the spymaster
broke the bad news.
"Belisarius is alive," he said curtly.
There were seven other men in the room. One, like the spymaster, was foreign.
From the blankness of his face, it was obvious he had already heard the news.
Of the Romans in the room, five rose up on their couches, their faces
expressing various degrees of consternation.
The seventh man, the last of the Romans, simply curled his lip, and satisfied
himself with shifting his weight to the other elbow.