Red Rising · Book 4
Iron Gold
- Published
- 16 January 2018
- Pages
- 672
- ISBN-13
- 9781501959790
- Type
- novel

About this book
Iron Gold opens the saga's second trilogy in 2018, jumping forward in time and multiplying viewpoints to trade Darrow's singular rise for a wider, grimmer look at what revolution costs the people who win it. At 672 pages, it sits between Morning Star and Dark Age and assumes readers have finished the first trilogy.
Its place in Red Rising
Iron Gold is book 4 in the Red Rising series. It follows Morning Star. It is followed by Dark Age. See the full Red Rising reading order.
Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in a brutally stratified solar-system society, born to mine helium-3 beneath Mars so that the ruling Golds can terraform the surface his people are told doesn't exist yet. When his wife is executed for a minor act of rebellion, Darrow is recruited by an underground resistance, surgically and genetically transformed to pass as a Gold, and sent to infiltrate the ruling class from within its most brutal proving ground: a war-games academy where students kill each other…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9786052995365
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780425285916
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781473646568