The Shattering Peace

Beschreibung

The truce is over. But has the end begun? An unmissable return to the critically-acclaimed Old Man's War series, from Hugo Award-winner and science fiction master John Scalzi.<BR><BR>For ten years a fragile truce has held between the Colonial Union, Earth and the alien Conclave. But the Consu, the most advanced species in the galaxy, are descending into a civil war that threatens to touch every living soul in interstellar space.<BR><BR>Gretchen Trujillo is used to the monotony of work within the Colonial Union's bureaucracy.

But her mundane life ends the moment she's recruited for a secret mission, where she's joined by envoys from every powerful faction in space. Gretchen must navigate a web of alien intrigue to uncover a truth that will reshape the destiny of every known species, or erase humans and aliens from the stars forever.<BR><BR>* * *<BR><BR>Praise for the Old Man's War series<BR><BR>'John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today'<BR>- Joe Hill, author of King Sorrow<BR><BR>'Scalzi is one of the slickest writers that SF has ever produced'<BR>- Wall Street Journal<BR><BR>'It gladdens the reader's heart . . . great fun'<BR>- Daily Telegraph<BR>

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