From USA Today bestselling author, Robert I. Katz, comes Shadow of the Viceroy, the fourth book of The Survivors. Blake Pierce, Duke of Taverno, rules half of the nation of Venecia, and has reluctantly assumed command of the simmering rebellion against the tyrannical Viceroy. Only the Viceroy retains any remnant of the Ancients' lost technology. Many men have tried to challenge the Viceroy. All have been crushed. But now, old and forbidden technologies are being resurrected. Men are digging through the remains of dead and buried cities, plotting to regain the secrets of the long-vanished Empire. In all the seven nations, ambitious men are jockeying for position and secretly choosing their side. Blake Pierce has an army and unexpected allies, but for three thousand years the Viceroy has ruthlessly enforced his will. Has the time finally come to throw off the Viceroy's rule? Or will Blake Pierce, his family and his followers meet the same futile end as all those before him who dared to defy the immortal Viceroy? Blake did not ask to lead the rebellion, but little-by-little, unseen forces have been moving against him, and in the end, he has no choice but to fight back or lose everything he has gained, including his life.