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.
