01310cam a2200277 4500 517234312 TxAuBib 090825s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009034711 9780765320049 0765320045 (OCoLC)24314 DLC DLC BTCTA BRL DOV UPZ IP6 C#P YDXCP CDX BWX UBY OSU UtOrBLW TxAuBib Card, Orson Scott. Hidden empire / Orson Scott Card. 1st ed. New York : Tor, 2009. 335 p. ; 24 cm. ""A Tom Doherty Associates book."". ""A sci fi essential book""--Dust jacket. In this sequel to Card's bestselling novel ""Empire,"" President Averell Torrent launches America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance. When Captain Bartholomew ""Cole"" Coleman sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy and the potential disasters involved in his foreign military adventures, he quickly runs afoul of Torrent and, while on the run, finds proof that Torrent orchestrated a presidential assassination. Civil war United States Fiction. Political fiction. Science fiction. TXHSP