Shattering Peace

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. 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. 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.