THE SHATTERING PEACE

Peace is an illusion After a decade acclaimed Hugo Award winner and science fiction master John Scalzi returns to the Old Man s War series with the long awaited seventh book The Shattering Peace For a decade peace has reigned in interstellar space An agreement between the Colonial Union Earth and the alien Conclave has kept the forces of war at bay But there is a new force that threatens the hard maintained peace The Consu The most advanced intelligent species humans have ever met are on the cusp of a species defining civil war and the rest of the galaxy is at risk of being dragged into the conflict Gretchen Trujillo is a mid level diplomat working in an unimportant part of the Colonial Union bureaucracy But when she is called to take part in a secret mission involving representatives from every powerful faction in space what she finds there has the chance to redefine the destinies of each or destroy them forever