num_pages: 352
description: A political SF epic of extraordinary audacity.The long years of near-utopia have come to an abrupt end.Peace and order are now figments of the past. Corruption deception and insurgency hum within the once steadfast leadership of the Hives nations without fixed location.The heartbreaking truth is that for decades even centuries the leaders of the great Hives bought the worlds stability with a trickle of secret murders mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held.The Hives faade of solidity is the only hope they have for maintaining a semblance of order for preventing the public from succumbing to the savagery and bloodlust of wars past. But as the great secret becomes more and more widely known that faade is slipping away.Just days earlier the world was a pinnacle of human civilization. Now everyoneHives and hiveless Utopians and sensayers emperors and the downtrodden warriors and saintsscrambles to prepare for the seemingly inevitable war.
language: English
title: The Will to Battle
publisher: Tor Books