The resulting narrative is quintessentialĬard: impassioned, argumentative, and difficult to set aside. Responsibility, and the importance of humane, ethical standards in our Shadow Puppets By: Orson Scott Card Narrated by: David Birney, Stefan Rudnicki Series Enders Shadow, Book 3, The Enderverse, Book 8 Critic Reviews.

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In India, a young idealist propagates a Gandhi-like act of Girlfriend, Petra Arkanian, go to ground, convinced that Achilles wants With his own folly, various interconnected dramas unfold. Shadow Puppets begins when reigning hegemon Peter Wiggin rescuesĪchilles Flandres, a charismatic psychopath imprisoned in China,įoolishly believing he can control Achilles. Which focus both on Bean's career and on the turbulent, divisiveĪftermath of the Formic War. Second-in-command during the genocidal war against the Formics in Ender's Game, returns in a series of 'parallel' novels beginning with Ender's Shadow and continuing with Shadow of the Hegemon, SHADOW PUPPETS by Orson Scott Card - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by Orson Scott Card.įantasy master Orson Scott Card brings us a new installment in hisĬlassic Ender saga. Shadow Puppets Orson Scott Card,, read by Scott Brick, Gabrielle De Cuir, Stefan Rudnicki, David Birney.

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