{"id":3038,"date":"2026-01-03T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-heirs-of-babylon-cook-glen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T23:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T23:02:00","slug":"the-heirs-of-babylon-cook-glen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-heirs-of-babylon-cook-glen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Heirs of Babylon &#8211; Cook, Glen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='book-preview'>\n<h3>Book Preview<\/h3>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">A RESTLESS couple sat on a blanket on a twisted, rusted<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">girder, holding hands sadly, occasionally glancing toward<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">the ancient ship at the pier in the distance, silent love<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">islanded in a forest of broken steel madness. The girl<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">moved nervously, stared through the bones of the<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">shipyard, hating the ship that would take her Kurt away\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">Jager, a gray steel dragon specially evolved for the<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">dealing of death, crouched, waiting beside the Hoch-und-<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">Deutschmeister pier. Her hand tightened on his. She lifted<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">it, rubbed her cheek against his knuckles, kissed them, and<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">moved closer. He slipped his arm around her, lightly. Hers<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">passed around his waist. The cool, moist fingers of their<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">free hands entwined in her lap. <\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">They were Kurt and Karen Ranke, married eleven<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">months, two weeks, and three days, and about to be<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">parted by the warship\u2014perhaps permanently. Both were<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">tall and leanly muscular, blond, blue-eyed, almost stereo-<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">typically Aryan, alike as brother and sister, yet related<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">only through marriage. Their sadness was for the War, on<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">A snatch of song momentarily haunted the ruins to<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">their left. They turned. A hundred meters distant, beside<\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">the shallow, scum-topped water-corpse of the Kiel Canal, <\/p>\n<p class=\"calibre1\">sailors made their ways toward the destroyer; men without<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style='margin: 30px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee;'>\n<p style='text-align:center;'>Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/download-is-starting\/?url=https%3A\/\/mega.co.nz\/%23%21AowxjDoJ%21NikronN9uAzDpZrVNNIJp6LBTJC86nu6d56bcK9QZV8' class='download-btn' target='_blank'>DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Preview A RESTLESS couple sat on a blanket on a twisted, rusted girder, holding hands sadly, occasionally glancing toward the ancient ship at the pier in the distance, silent love islanded in a forest of broken steel madness. The girl moved nervously, stared through the bones of the shipyard, hating the ship that would &#8230; <a title=\"The Heirs of Babylon &#8211; Cook, Glen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-heirs-of-babylon-cook-glen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The Heirs of Babylon &#8211; Cook, Glen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[165],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glen-cook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}