Orson Scott Card 
Shadow Of The Giant 
Book 4 of the Shadow Saga

The work of a confident master with an absolute grip on his material – SFX’Card has taken the venerable SF concepts of a superhuman and interstellar war … and, with superb characterisation, pacing and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power.’ – Booklist Bean was the smallest student at the Battle School, but he became Ender Wiggins’ right hand, since then he has grown to be a power on Earth. He served the Hegemon as strategist and general in the terrible wars that followed Ender’s defeat of the alien empire attacking Earth. Now he and his wife Petra yearn for a safe place to build a family – something he has never known – but there is nowhere on Earth that does not harbor his enemies – old enemies from the days in Ender’s Jeesh, new enemies from the wars on Earth. To find security, Bean and Petra must once again follow in Ender’s footsteps. They must leave Earth behind, in the control of the Hegemon, and look to the stars.The fourth book in Orson Scott Card’s brilliant Shadow Saga.Books by Orson Scott Card:Alvin Maker novels Seventh Son Red Prophet Prentice Alvin Alvin Journeyman Heartfire The Crystal City Ender Wiggin Saga Ender’s Game Speaker for the Dead Xenocide Children of the Mind Ender in Exile Homecoming The Memory of the Earth The Call of the Earth The Ships of the Earth Earthfall Earthborn First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston)Earth Unaware Earth Afire Earth Awakens