title: Faction Paradox: Warring States (Faction Paradox series)
author: Mags L. Halliday
description: [Faction Paradox is] in equal parts enraging and enlightening, fascinating and frustrating, infuriating and intriguing, marvellously epic and maddeningly elusive. --Enlightenment
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  CONTENTS
  
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  > > > [Maps and
  > Diagrams](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_006.html#filepos13375)
  
  > > >  
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  > > >
  > [Introduction](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_007.html#filepos14219)
  
    
  
  
  [PART I THE
  RIVALS](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_008.html#filepos28412)
  
  > > > [1 Four Men
  > Waiting](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_011.html#filepos29348)
  
  > > > [2 The “Longing to
  > Rise”](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_014.html#filepos97594)
  
  > > > [3 The Lure of
  > Politics](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_016.html#filepos193765)
  
  > > > [4 “Plunder &
  > Conquest”](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_018.html#filepos370348)
  
  > > > [5 The Turbulent
  > Fifties](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_021.html#filepos425814)
  
  > > > [6 The Gathering
  > Storm](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_024.html#filepos514560)
  
  > > > [7 Countdown to the
  > Nomination](Team_of_Rivals_The_Political_Ge_split_026.html#filepos635219)
  
  > > > [8 Showdown in
  > Chicag