Book description
Visible in the night sky the Argus Station, its twin smelting plants
like glowing eyes, looks down on nightmare Earth. From Argus the
Committee keep an oppressive control: citizens are watched by cams
systems and political officers, it's a world inhabited by shepherds,
reader guns, razor birds and the brutal Inspectorate with its white
tiled cells and pain inducers. Soon the Committee will have the power to
edit human minds, but not yet, twelve billion human being need to die
before Earth can be stabilized, but by turning large portions of Earth
into concentration camps this is achievable, especially when the Argus
satellite laser network comes fully online . . . This is the world Alan
Saul wakes to in his crate on the conveyor to the Calais incinerator.
How he got there he does not know, but he does remember the pain and the
face of his interrogator. Informed by Janus, through the hardware
implanted in his skull, about the world as it is now Saul is determined
to destroy it, just as soon as he has found out who he was, and killed
his interrogator . . . Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex,
and divides his time between here and Crete. His previous full-length
novels are
Gridlinked
, The Skinner
, The Line of Polity
, Cowl
, Brass Man
, The Voyage of the Sable Keech
, Polity Agent
, Hilldiggers
, Prador Moon
, Line War
, Shadow of the Scorpion
, Orbus
and The Technician
.
