Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy the than he can ever admit. And yet the balance is beginning to give way. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. Perry.Ībout the book: In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war…a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end.įor known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. She will be joined in conversation by David M. Ada Palmer discusses Seven Surrenders: A Novel.
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