Far Compass

For fifteen million marks, a philosopher buys half a world he has never seen. The people who already live there are not consulted.

Year 123. The republic has a government, a flag and a Constitution, and now it has a continent. A captain and his enslaved companion set out to map the Seven Rivers. A duel kills the republic's greatest financial mind. An embargo ruins a coast, a war burns a capital, and a great battle is won after the peace has been signed. Through it all, a Cartographer draws a compass with a missing point, and a stranger watches from the edge of every crowd.

As the country grows, two proud men begin the rivalry that will shape its future: a diplomat who believes in patience and a general who believes in the people. Each is sure he is saving the republic. Only one of them can be right about what it will become.

Far Compass is the fourth book of The Chronicles of the New Frontier, an epic that retells the American story as a possible future: Earth is the Old World, Mars is the New World, and the history is hidden in riddles, symbols, and echoes. Each book ends with an afterword that shows how the story echoes real events.

SERIES DESCRIPTION
The Chronicles of the New Frontier is a twelve-book epic that begins today and follows two worlds forward together. The planets are real. Everything else is new. Readers who know American history will find the echoes; readers who do not will find a story about what a country is, and what it costs to make one.