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 due to agreements between the Colonial Union, Earth and the alien Conclave. But now the most advanced, intelligent species humans have ever met is on the cusp of a species-defining war. Nothing the Consu does, however, is just about them. The Colonial Union, Earth and the Conclave have been unwillingly dragged into their conflict, and in the most surprising of ways. Gretchen Trujillo is a mid-level bureaucrat in a mundane job within the Colonial Union''s State Department. Until, that is, she''s called to take part in a secret mission that will involve representatives from every powerful faction in space. What she discovers could redefine the destinies of humans and aliens alike . . . or destroy every one of them.

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**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.

Praise for the Old Man's War series

'John Scalzi is the most entertaining, accessible writer working in SF today'
- Joe Hill, author of King Sorrow

'Scalzi is one of the slickest writers that SF has ever produced'
- Wall Street Journal

'It gladdens the reader's heart . . . great fun'
- Daily Telegraph