Book description
When a Siddley-Lockheed CP-450 carrying a group of privileged
pleasure-seeking Dynasty members is blown up over Nova Zealand, Senior
Investigator Paula Myo of the Serious Crimes Directorate is called in to
solve the terrible crime. A group called the Free Merioneth Forces have
claimed responsibility but there had to be an individual at the end of
that missile launcher and Paula is determined to find out who it was.
This short story is taken from Manhattan in Reverse
, the first short story collection in thirteen years from the master of
space opera. Peter F. Hamilton takes us on a journey from a murder
mystery in an alternative Oxford in the 1800s to a brand new story
featuring Paula Mayo, Deputy Director of the Intersolar Commonwealth's
Serious Crimes Directorate. Dealing with intricate themes and topical
subjects this top ten bestselling author is at the top of his game.
The cover image for The Demon Trap
was designed by Andrew Parkes as part of a competition run by Pan
Macmillan in association with SFX
magazine. Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960, and
still lives near Rutland Water. He began writing in 1987 and sold his
first short story to Fear
magazine in 1988. He has also been published in Interzone
and the In Dreams
and New Worlds
anthologies, and in several small-press publications. His previous
novels are the Greg Mandel series: Mindstar Rising
, A Quantum Murder
and The Nano Flower
and the bestselling Night's Dawn trilogy: The Reality Dysfunction
, The Neutronium Alchemist
and The Naked God
. Also published by Pan Macmillan are A Second Chance at Eden
, a novella and six short stories set in the same brilliantly realized
universe, and The Confederation Handbook
, a vital guide to the Night's Dawn trilogy. His most recent novels are
Fallen Dragon
, Misspent Youth
, Pandora's Star
, Judas Unchained
and the Void trilogy: The Dreaming Void
, The Temporal Void
and The Evolutionary Void
.
