Card's prize-winning "Ender's Game" is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written. Now Card returns with the sequel to "Ender's Shadow" in a tale long-awaited by his millions of fans. At last readers learn what happened on Earth after humanity no longer had a single enemy to unify the warring nations. This is the parallel yarn of Ender's friend, Bean, who became the tactical genius who won Earth for Ender's brother, Peter.