The Prefect - Hardcover

Reynolds, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0441015913 ISBN 13: 9780441015917

Publisher: Ace Hardcover, 2008

Synopsis

A hardened law enforcement officer with the Panoply, Prefect Tom Dreyfus gets more than he had bargained for when an investigation into a murderous attack on one of the space habitats of the Glitter Band--a crime that has left nine hundred people dead--uncovers a covert plot by a mysterious entity seeking total control of the region.

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About the Author:

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. AndrewÂ’s Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He is a former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He is now writing full-time.

From Publishers Weekly:

The seventh novel set in Reynolds's Revelation Space milieu (most recently encountered in his 2007 collection Galactic North) is a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study. One of the 10,000 colony habitats of the utopian Glitter Band has been destroyed, and title character Tom Dreyfus, a cop who patrols the Glitter Band beat, is assigned to learn whodunit and why. Meanwhile, his protégé, Thalia Ng, shepherds a supposedly minor series of software upgrades on several other habitats, while Dreyfus's superiors oust their leader, ostensibly for her own good. Reynolds unfolds revelations layer by onionskin layer, supplying enough detail to imply a novel's worth of unwritten backstory without ever obscuring the stakes and personalities. The high-quality characterization more than compensates for the slightly too shadowy villains. This is solid British SF adventure, evoking echoes of le Carré and Sayers with a liberal dash of Doctor Who. (June)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Ace Hardcover
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0441015913
• ISBN 13: 9780441015917
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416