Henry has the Perfect Pet - a duck called Spot - who thinks he's found the Perfect Present for Henry's Birthday. But when the big day comes, Henry's grandparents arrive with a Perfect Present of their own - a strange and wobbling box - with something inside that could change things between Spot and
Prefect Dreyfus 01-The Prefect aka Aurora Rising
β Scribed by Alastair Reynolds
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 333 KB
- Series
- Revelation Space 5
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1440637881
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β¦ Synopsis
Critically-acclaimed author Alastair Reynolds creates "a fascinating hybrid of space opera, police procedural and character study"(Publishers Weekly) in this novel in his Revelation Space universe.
Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds.
His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead. But his investigation uncovers something far more serious than mass slaughterβa covert plot by an enigmatic entity who seeks nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band.
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