Common Good, The

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. A civilization has eliminated war so completely that it no longer remembers how to survive one. IN THE UNION, YOUR HAPPINESS IS MANDATORY. YOUR PEACE IS A LIE. Earth is a paradise of forced harmony, its billions kept docile and compliant. There is no war. There is no passion. There is only the chilling perfection of the Union. When a devastating rebellion on Mars shatters the illusion of the Union's invincibility, the system’s architects are forced to do the unthinkable: they must remember how to fight. They reactivate Captain Marcus Shaw, a disgraced military historian who understands the forgotten languages of fear, violence, and asymmetrical warfare. Given absolute command, Shaw must forge an army from a civilization that has forgotten how to fight. But as Shaw strips his soldiers of their conditioning, he unleashes a force more dangerous than the Martian uprising. To win a war against a desperate world, Shaw must turn his men into monsters. And to save humanity from a perfect, living death, he may have to burn the Union to the ground. If peace costs your humanity, is it still peace? Perfect for readers of dystopian and military science fiction with morally complex characters and impossible choices.