But now the place was barely remembered on maps, let alone in places where civilized people gathered. It had been a proud capital, once, and the people who inhabited its marble corridors had dominated much of the world. The Drowned Cities: a coastline swamped by rising sea levels and political hatreds, a place of shattered rubble and eternal gunfire. A week before, the Drowned Cities hadn't been worth mentioning, let alone worth committing drones to overwatch. T HE DRONE CIRCLED high above the wreckage of war.Ī week before, it hadn't been there. “Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with ‘The Hunger Games’…but Bacigalupi is one of the genre’s masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines.” - Los Angeles Times Read Excerpt But he is hunted relentlessly by someone determined to destroy him, who knows an alarming secret: Tool has found the way to resist his genetically ingrained impulses of submission and loyalty toward his masters… The time is coming when Tool will embark on an all-out war against those who have enslaved him.įrom one of science fiction’s undisputed masters comes a riveting and all-too-timely page-turner that explores the intricate relationships connecting hunter and prey, master and enslaved, human and monster.

He has gone rogue from his pack of bioengineered “augments” and emerged a victorious leader of a pack of human soldier boys. In this gripping, eerily prescient sci-fi thriller that Kirkus described as “masterful,” Tool–a half-man/half-beast designed for combat–proves himself capable of so much more than his creators had ever dreamed. Set in a dark future devastated by climate change, Tool of War is the third book in a major adventure series by a bestselling and award-winning science fiction author and starring the most provocative character from the acclaimed novels Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities.

Tool of war paolo bacigalupi