Download or read book Hidden Empire written by Orson Scott Card and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hidden Empire, the sequel to Card's bestselling novel Empire, Averell Torrent has become President of the United States, with enormous political and popular support and, if people only realized it, a tight grip on the reins of both political parties. He has launched America into a get-tough, this-world-is-our-empire foreign policy stance. But Captain Bartholomew Coleman, known as Cole to his friends and enemies alike, sees the danger Torrent poses to American democracy and the potential disasters involved in his foreign military adventures. Cole quickly runs afoul of Torrent; on the run, he and a few friends and allies seek proof of how Torrent orchestrated the political takeover that included assassinating a President and nearly starting a civil war. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.