Book description
From 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity
and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien
'Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud.
Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut
down - because something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped
into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac
learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious
virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raised questions:
why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the
Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who
could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate
is distributing pernicious Jain nodes . . . and a renegade attack ship,
The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the
Polity itself.
Neal Asher was born and bred and on the Essex coast, and still lives
there. His previous novels include Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line
of Polity, Cowl and Brass Man.
