Major Malich works at the Pentagon, where he writes the plans to find holes in American security, having no idea that they will fall into the wrong hands. They are attacked and return fire, saving a village with only one civilian casualty and earning Captain Malich a promotion to Major. The book opens with Major Malich, a captain at the time, leading a Special Forces team in a town of an unnamed Persian-speaking country. A radical leftist army calling itself the Progressive Restoration takes over New York City and declares itself the rightful government of the United States. Army Captain Bartholomew Coleman, both former Special Forces officers, as America falls into a civil war after the assassinations of both the American President and Vice President. It is the first of the two books in the Empire duet, followed by Hidden Empire with the video game Shadow Complex bridging the two. It tells the story of a possible Second American Civil War, this time between the Right wing and Left wing in the near future.

Please allow extra time for delivery outside the lower 48 states.Empire is a 2006 dystopian novel by American writer Orson Scott Card. Price includes free shipping to anywhere in the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii, all protectorates, colonies and territories as well as APO/FPO addresses. Most of it flaked off with little effort. There is a spot of transfer on one corner of one book. These are first trade printings, so stated with number lines to '1'.

I removed the jackets to read the books so they would not get damaged. Unlike most of the books I offer, these are from my personal collection, bought to read, read once and put on a shelf in my living room. Card's typically shrewd political insights abound, as do fantastic technological marvels that are just over the horizon. Sometimes these are issued in paper around Christmas.High tech warfare with strategy is a strong theme throughout the Enderverse, and it is no different with these books, set in a not-to-distant future in America. He still contributes his work to that series, often posting new stories to his personal website. Ender's Game has been taught in middle school for a decade or more and was recently made into a feature film. His Enderverse novels have reached millions. Orson Scott Card is considered by many the finest science fiction writer alive in America today, perhaps the world.

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