# Dirty Water - Hardcover

by **Tom Kratman** (Author)

**A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME--BACK TO BOSTON!**

1462: an alien who feasts on the suffering of sentient beings dines off the agonies of Vlad the Impaler's twenty-thousand victims near Targoviste, Romania.

1688: a woman is framed for witchcraft and hanged by the neck in Boston.

1965: a toy store that never seems to run out of special toys is suspected of being the location of a temporal portal, the same one used by the agony-feeding alien.

2022: a grandfather, showing his young grandchildren what remains of the Boston of his youth, is shown that portal by his granddaughters.

And they're off! Off through the gate that grants wishes, off to deal with time travel, off to break and enter, off to endure the pain of seeing afresh loved ones long since departed in their own time. They're off to deal with hardened, murderous criminals and with equally murderous aliens.

And all of that is set around the time of Christmas joy, in old, fine hotels, with presents, fresh loves, Handel's Messiah, a department store's enchanted village, old delicacies, modern weapons, lasers . . . and a very special calico cat.

### Author Biography

In 1974, at age seventeen, **Tom Kratman** became a political refugee and defector from the PRM (People's Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army. He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life, returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch. Back in the Army, he managed to do just about everything there was to do at one time or another. After the Gulf War, with the bottom dropping completely out of the anti-communist market, Tom decided to become a lawyer. Every now and again, when the frustrations of legal life and having to deal with _other_ lawyers got to be too much, Tom would rejoin the Army (or a somewhat similar group, say) for fun and frolic in other climes. His family, muttering darkly, put up with this for _years_. He no longer practices law, instead writing full-time for Baen. His novels for Baen include _A State of Disobedience, Caliphate_, and the series consisting of _A Desert Called Peace, Carnifex, The Lotus Eaters, The Amazon Legion, Come and Take Them_, _The Rods and the Axe_, and _A Pillar of Fire by Night._ With John Ringo, he has written the novels _Watch on the Rhine, Yellow Eyes_, and _The Tuloriad._ Also for Baen, he has written the first three volumes of the modern-day military fiction series Countdown.

**Number of Pages:** 416

**Dimensions:** 1.3 x 9.4 x 6.2 IN

**Publication Date:** November 07, 2023

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