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The Strength of the Few

Series: The Hierarchy
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Featuring a reversible book cover that matches the original hardcover art design, sprayed edges, and beautifully designed endpapers! This highly anticipated sequel to The Will of the Many—one of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels—follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could... Read More
Format: Hardback
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The Strength of the Few

"This highly anticipated follow-up to The Will of the Many-one of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels-follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could unravel history across alternate dimensions"--

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Featuring a reversible book cover that matches the original hardcover art design, sprayed edges, and beautifully designed endpapers!

This highly anticipated sequel to The Will of the Many—one of 2023's most lauded and bestselling fantasy novels—follows Vis as he grapples with a dangerous secret that could unravel history across alternate dimensions.

Book two of the Hierarchy quartet.

OMNE TRIUM PERFECTUM

The Hierarchy still call me Vis Telimus. Still hail me as Catenicus. 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.

Series: The Hierarchy

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781982141233

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 November 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Simon & Schuster

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 49.0mm

Width: 163.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 907g

Pages: 736

About the Author

James Islington is the bestselling author of The Will of the Many (the first novel in the Hierarchy series), as well as the Licanius Trilogy (beginning with The Shadow of What Was Lost). He has sold more than two million books, and his work has been translated into seventeen different languages. He lives on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, with his wife and two children.

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