Book description
Raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity
and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador, Ian Cormac is haunted by
childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the
burden of losses he doesn’t remember.
In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security,
and is sent out to help either restore or simply maintain order on
worlds devastated by Prador bombardment.
There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as
ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his
fellow humans, some of them closer to him than he would like.
Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, he discovers in himself a
cold capacity for violence, learns some horrible truths about his own
past and, set upon a course of vengeance, tries merely to stay alive.
Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and still lives nearby. 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 and The Gabble.
