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Cover of Catspaw

Catspaw

✍ Scribed by Joan D. Vinge


Publisher
Warner Books
Year
2010;1989
Tongue
UND
Weight
266 KB
Edition
Popular Library edition
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0446603724

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✦ Synopsis


SUMMARY:
The most popular novel in Joan D. Vinges bestselling Cat series is back in print for the first time in trade paperback. Cat, a half-human, half-alien telepath, rose from a childhood in the streets of a city halfway across the galaxy to become a hero. He helped stop a powerful psion who was bent on seizing control of the mines which produce the ore that fuels spaceships throughout the galaxy. But the most popular Cat novel, a bestseller when first published, and one of Joan D. Vinges most enduring works, is Catspaw. Several hundred years from now, in a richly imagined New York, Cat finds himself protecting one of the most powerful women in the galaxy. Cats been through a lot, but nothing can really prepare him for the backstabbing and doubledealing of the rich and famous. Using his telepathic gift and street smarts, Cat has to fend off unseen dangers that surround him and his charge.Between the dangers of a beautiful married woman, an unseen telepath who seems hellbent on thwarting Cats pursuit of the threat to his VIP client, and a power-mad fanatic who has fooled everyone but Cat, the action never stops in this enormously entertaining noir SF thriller.


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