Jake and Faye are two of the most talented Actives in the world, and all their powers will be needed when the Imperium makes its sneak attack. Edgar Hoover, and Faye Vierra, an adopted child raised by a secret Grimnoir Knight on a farm in the San Fernando Valley of California. This book centers on two new recruits – Jake Sullivan, an ex-con who worked for the FBI for a while but was cheated by J. Pershing, John Moses Browning, and others. In the atmosphere of complacency permitted by the Peace Ray, only a small order of Actives, the Grimnoir Knights, carries on an asymmetrical resistance under the leadership of Gen. It’s known now as the Imperium, and is effectively controlled by a ruthless magician. Russia was defeated magically in the Russo-Japanese War, making Japan the dominant power in the east.
World War I was ended by the Peace Ray, an invention of Tesla’s, resulting in the virtual annihilation of Berlin, which became a miserable city of zombies. This led to some changes in the world – primarily in the balance of power.
The story is set in the 1930s, in an alternate universe where people with magical powers (known as Actives) starting appearing spontaneously among the population sometime in the mid-1800s.
So I remedied that by downloading Hard Magic, Book One of the Grimnoir Chronicles series. I was in the embarrassing situation of having Larry Correia as a Facebook friend but never having read any of his stuff, even though he seemed to have his head on pretty straight.
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