The Strength of the Few
Hierarchy, Book Two
James Islington
The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. They still, as one, believe they know who I am. But with all that has happened—with what I fear is coming—I am not sure it matters anymore. I am no longer one. I won the Iudicium, and lost everything—and now, impossibly, the ancient device beyond the Labyrinth has replicated me across three separate worlds. A different version of myself in each of Obiteum, Luceum, and Res. Three different bodies, three different lives. I have to hide; fight; play politics. I have to train; trust; lie. I have to kill; heal; prove myself again, and again, and again.
I am loved, and hated, and entirely alone. Above all, though, I need to find answers before it’s too late. To understand the nature of what has happened to me, and why.
I need to find a way to stop the coming Cataclysm, because if all I have learned is true, I may be the only one who can.
andThe Strength of the Few
‘Bestseller Islington’s brilliant middle volume of his Hierarchy trilogy clears the high bar set by the first installment…Evocative prose and nuanced ruminations on the nature of power and sacrifice enhance Islington’s complex multiverse worldbuilding. Readers will be on the edge of their seats.’
‘Phenomenal! One of the best high fantasy novels I’ve read in years—think Red Rising meets The Name of the Wind. I couldn’t put it down.’
‘A brilliant and gut-churning masterpiece.’
‘Cleverly intersperses the world and character building with bursts of action and intrigue which kept me gripped from beginning to end…A fabulously addictive read which I would recommend for lovers of epic fantasy.’
