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Shadow of the Hegemon

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The Battle School prodigies come home to an Earth that wants to use them

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Quick recap

Back on Earth after the war, the Battle School graduates become the prize every nation wants. Achilles kidnaps Ender's former squad; only Bean gets away. Peter Wiggin, writing as Locke, exposes Achilles, and nearly everyone is freed, except Petra, who is taken to India. There Achilles pushes the country into wars with its neighbors while secretly setting up a Chinese invasion. Petra finds a way to send messages out. Bean goes to Thailand, trains troops with Suriyawong, survives a betrayal and loses Sister Carlotta. With Virlomi's help, he and Suriyawong take Hyderabad and rescue Petra. Locke exposes China's betrayal as it happens, and Peter is elected Hegemon.

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What changed on screen

  1. Behind the scenesA reader changed the book

    Card split his original draft into two books after a reader, Phillip Absher, found Petra's storyline anticlimactic.

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  2. Behind the scenesA history lesson

    Card credits David K. Wyatt's Thailand: A Short History and Lawrence James's Raj as the backbone of the war between India, Thailand and China.

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