### Product Description A collection of short stories 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 Commonwealths Serious Crimes Director
Manhattan in reverse and other stories
โ Scribed by Peter F. Hamilton
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group;Ballantine Books
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 186 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
A major collection of short fiction from Peter F. Hamilton, New York Times bestselling author of Pandora's Star, The Dreaming Void, and many other epic science fiction novels--including a brand-new novella starring detective Paula Myo
Fans of the Commonwealth Saga will enjoy the return of Paula Myo, the genetically engineered police investigator whose single-minded pursuit of justice runs up against a postwar citizenry eager to forget old crimes. In the all-new novella "Manhattan in Reverse," Paula is dispatched to the backwoods planet of Menard after a docile, supposedly nonintelligent alien species attacks peaceful human settlers. Menard may have to be evacuated--something the planet's corporate owners and human populace are prepared to resist . . . perhaps with targeted aggression.
Violence hits closer to home in "The Demon Trap" in which Paula's investigation of a gruesome act of terrorism leads into unexpected political, technological,...
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