![]() And you're so powerfully invested in them, such is the quality of this series, that you read the entire book with your heart in your mouth, and every possible body part crossed. And they make mistakes, the biggest most dangerous mistakes of all. How is peace best won? By negotiation or battle? Do people deserve second chances? Should you rehabilitate or annihilate? At what point does a principled stand become self-defeating? Love or society? Individual or whole? What price victory? Todd and Viola face them all. This last book in Ness's superlative Chaos Walking series is all about hard choices. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war. And then, in the wake of the President's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. Between the President's torture and the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil war, trying to hold on long enough for the second wave of settlers to arrive. ![]() The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had to make some terrible choices. ![]() There's a cure, but the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only for the most loyal. ![]() Noise is used as a tool of oppression and as a weapon. ![]() Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet. ![]()
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