When the Devil Dances

After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats human have dealt him, and has his own battle plan. When he squares off against Major Michael O’Neal, the only winner will be Satan himself. . . .

Cover Art by Patrick Turner

Hardcover
Paperback
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.

First printing, April 2002

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ringo, John, 1960–

When the Devil dances / John Ringo
p. cm.
ISBN 0-7434-3540-0
1. Human-alien encounter—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3568.I577 W47 2002
813'.6—dc21 2001056460

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH

Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-0-7434-3540-6
ISBN-10: 0-7434-3540-0

Copyright© 2002 by John Ringo

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When the Devil Dances
by John Ringo

Dedicated to:

Thomas Burnett, 38, father of three,
and all the other warriors of flight 93.
They died that others might live.
_

Call me not false, beloved,
If, from your scarce-known breast

So little time removed,
In other arms I rest.

For this more ancient bride,
Whom coldly I embrace,

Was constant at my side
Before I saw thy face.

Live, then, whom Life shall cure,
Almost, of Memory,

And leave us to endure
Its immortality.

—Rudyard Kipling
"The Bridegroom"
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