Book description
Sable Keech is a walking dead man, and the only one to have been
resurrected by nanochanger. Did he succeed because he was infected by
the Spatterjay virus, or because he came late to resurrection in a tank
of seawater? Tracing the man's last-known seaborne journey, Taylor Bloc
wants to know the truth. He also wants so much else - adulation, power,
control - and will go to any lengths to achieve them. An ancient hive
mind, almost incomprehensible to the human race, has sent an agent to
this uncertain world. Does it simply want to obtain the poison 'sprine'
that is crucial to immortality - and, if so, maybe Janer must find it
and stop it. Meanwhile, still faced with the ennui of immortality, Erlin
has her solitude rudely interrupted by a very angry whelkus titanicus,
and begins the strangest of journeys. Deep in the ocean the Spatterjay
virus has wrought a terrible change that will affect them all. Something
dormant for ten years is breaking free, and once again the aftershocks
of an ancient war will focus on this watery world. And Sniper, for ten
years the Warden of Spatterjay, finally takes delivery of his new drone
shell. It's much better than his old one: powerful engines, more lethal
weapons, thicker armour. He's going to need them.
Essex-born author Neal Asher was writing short science fiction for
many years before he embarked on his first full-length novel
Gridlinked , followed by four others which have been translated into
nine different languages.
