The End of All Things

The Colonial Union is weakened, and Earth no longer trusts it. The Conclave, the alliance of alien governments that once fought it, is splitting apart over its own politics. Into this unstable moment come four people, each facing a different piece of the same crisis.

The novel is the sixth in the Old Man's War series and follows The Human Division. It is built from four novella-length parts, and each part has its own point of view.

Rafe Daquin, a pilot, is caught in an ordeal that puts him at the centre of a conspiracy. Hafte Sorvalh works as an aide to General Tarsem Gau of the Conclave. Heather Lee, a lieutenant in the Colonial Defense Forces, is sent to put down separatists in the colonies.

Lieutenant Harry Wilson has the hardest diplomatic task: getting three rival powers to work together against a threat that stays hidden. The parts shift between pilot, aide, soldier and negotiator, so the book moves between viewpoints and settings. The story first came out as four e-book episodes in June 2015 and appeared as one novel that August.