Mitosis

Its place in The Reckoners

Mitosis is book 2 in the The Reckoners series. It follows Steelheart. It is followed by Firefight. See the full The Reckoners reading order.

Ten years after a mysterious astronomical event called Calamity gave a fraction of humanity superpowers, those 'Epics' have become the world's new ruling class -- and almost universally, absolute power has made them tyrants. David Charleston watched an Epic called Steelheart murder his father in cold blood as a child, and has spent the decade since obsessively cataloguing Epic weaknesses in hopes of joining the Reckoners, a resistance cell that hunts and kills Epics using intelligence rather than matching…