THIRD EDITION, WITH NEW MATERIAL. COMPTON CROOK AWARD FOR BEST
FIRST NOVEL. NEBULA AWARD FINALIST. National Bestseller in trade
paperback. An agent for a spy organization uncovers an alien
alliance in nearby interstellar space--an alliance that will soon
involve humanity in politics and war on a galactic scale. 2105,
September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy
on Earth's Moon--a history-changing clandestine project--and ends
up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later,
Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved
faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And
now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of
conspiracy himself. Riordan's mission: travel to a newly settled
world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once
sentient--enough so to have built a lost civilization. However,
arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that
the job he's been given is anything but secret or safe. With
assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step, it's clear that
someone doesn't want his mission to succeed. In the end, it takes
the broad-based insights of an intelligence analyst and a matching
instinct for intrigue to ferret out the truth: that humanity is
neither alone in the cosmos nor safe. Earth is revealed to be the
lynchpin planet in an impending struggle for interstellar
dominance, a struggle into which it is being irresistibly dragged.
Discovering new dangers at every turn, Riordan must now convince
the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to survive as a
free species is to face the perils directly--and to fight fire with
fire. WINNER OF THE COMPTON CROOK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL
General
Imprint: |
Simon & Schuster
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Caine Riordan, 1 |
Release date: |
February 2024 |
Authors: |
Charles E. Gannon
|
Dimensions: |
235 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
400 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-982193-22-5 |
Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-982193-22-0 |
Barcode: |
9781982193225 |
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