
John Scalzi's The Human Division is the fifth in The Old Man's War series Lieutenant Harry Wilson has an impossible mission He must help preserve the union of humanity's colonies in the wake of a terrible revelation For years the Colonial Union has protected its citizens from the dangerous universe around them But the people of Earth now know the ugly truth The Union deliberately kept Earth as an ignorant backwater
- & as a source of recruits for its war against hostile aliens Now other alien races have formed a new alliance against the Union & they've invited the incensed people of Earth to join them Managing the Colonial Union's survival will take all the political cunning & finesse its diplomats can muster & Harry & his team will be deployed to deal with the unexpected
- for failure is unthinkable