Hidden Empire-Orson Scott Card

Hidden Empire by Orson Scott Card (2011, PB, 1st Mass Market Edition, Tor). 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.