Book description
The Node has failed, rendering humanity's battle clankers and the
Aachim's constructs useless. With the battle lost, hordes of alien
Lyrinx are swarming from the tar pits of Snizort, intending to fall upon
the survivors and destroy them to the last man. Tiaan, crippled and
unable to walk, is held prisoner by the vengeful Vithis, who is
determined to extract her geomantic secrets at any cost. For his
failings, Nish has been cast out and branded a traitor, while Irisis,
accused of high treason, is forced to flee for her life. The fate of
humanity is dependent on the survival of one wily old man, the Scrutator
Xervish Flydd. But Flydd has been blamed for the defeat at Snizort and
is condemned to die a brutish death as a slave - hauling ironclad
clankers out of the battlefield mire until his heart bursts under the
strain. Ian Irvine lives in the mountains of NSW, Australia.
