Teaser Tuesday - The Protector's War by S. M. Stirling

Teaser Tuesdays are hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

It asks us to:

(1) Grab our current reads.

(2) Let the book fall open to a random page.

(3) Share two (or three) teaser sentences from that page somewhere between lines 7 and 12 (avoiding spoilers).

We're also supposed to share the book title and author so others can find the book themselves.

Here's my teaser for today:

"Then hear my sentence," Havel said coldly. "You settled and built this place ... but now it's mine. You'll hold it from me, and be my man in all things. you and all yours; and your heirs will do the same for mine. This is now the northern border of Bearkiller territory and you're subject to the Outfit. Understood?"

The heavy swarthy face blinked at him in astonishment, then nodded with a quick decisive movement, fighting down a grin. "Yes, Lord Bear. I hear, and I will obey."

This is from The Protector's War by S. M. Stirling. It's the second book in a series describing how humanity (specifically groups in the Washington / Oregon area) survives after electronics, guns, and complex machinery stop working. The first book in this series is Dies the Fire (that's a link to my review), which takes place right when the "Change" happens. The Protector's War is set 8 years after the Change, so the survival techniques and societies that emerged right after the chaos are now becoming more formalized. People like Mike Havel, who started out as a bush pilot, are now local warrior kings.

I like the characters in these books and it's also very interesting to see Stirling's take on how societies would adapt to a huge change like this. It's also been interesting to see a wider view on how the Change affected other places, like England and Australia / Tasmania / New Zealand.