Patriarch's Hope
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Patriarch's Hope is a 1999 science fiction novel by David Feintuch and is the sixth book in the Seafort Saga. The book is set approximate 10 years after the events of Voices of Hope and is followed by Children of Hope.
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As UN SecGen, Nicholas Seafort is the most powerful man on Earth. Obsessed with honour and faith, he also remains driven by his own uncompromising sense of what is right.
Seafort has striven to protect humanity by divert resources to ever larger, more heavily armed starships. But there has been a price- global ecological collapse has ravaged the Earth.
Even as Seafort, confronted with the results of his stubborn course, turns his attention to the growing calamity, an orbital assault threatens the future of all mankind.