The year is 2454. Three centuries of peace have come to an abrupt end. The once steadfast leadership of the seven Hives is soured by corruption, deception and insurgency. The truth is that the leaders bought the world's stability with a trickle of secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction could ever dominate. So that the balance held. But now the Hives' utopian facade has slipped ... The third volume in the award-winning "Terra Ignota" series.