Red Rising

Red Rising is the 1st book in the Red Rising Saga Series.

The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day tame the surface of the planet and allow humans to live on it. The Reds are humanity's last hope. Or so it appears, until the day Darrow discovers it's all a lie. That Mars has been habitable - and inhabited - for generations, by a class of people calling themselves the Golds. A class of people who look down on Darrow and his fellows as slave labour, to be exploited and worked to death without a second thought. Until the day that Darrow, with the help of a mysterious group of rebels, disguises himself as a Gold and infiltrates their command school, intent on taking down his oppressors from the inside. But the command school is a battlefield - and Darrow isn't the only student with an agenda. Break the chains. Live for more. Pierce Brown's empire-crushing debut is a sprawling vision... Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow. - Scott Sigler, New York Times bestselling author of Pandemic

[A] top-notch debut novel... Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field. - USA Today