Hierarchy: The Strength of the Few by James Islington - Book 2

The highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many - one of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels.

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 and play politics. I have to train, trust and 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.

• Number of pages: 720 pages
• Book cover: Trade paperback