Review
โHang on! Hugo-winner Zahn takes off on a rip-roaring interstellar train ride with hard-boiled hero Frank Comptonโฆtough-guy PI fiction and characters straight out of Dick Tracy make this night train a juicily familiar joyride.โ โPublishers Weekly on Night Train to Rigel
โAn inventive plotโฆZahnโs strength is hard science fiction, and he excels at technical description. The comic-book-like nonstop action will attract fans of the genre.โ โRomantic Times BOOKreviews on Night Train to Rigel
โZahn plays out his suspense as deftly as always, building a tense situation and ultimately defusing it in believable and pleasing ways.โ โLocus on Mantaโs Gift
โZahn paints every futuristic detail with gleamy realism and mock-scientific dialogue that streams with starship hardware and military trooper talk. Immensely appealing.โ โKirkus Reviews on Angelmass
โThrough in-depth characterization, as well as toothsome scientific and political mysteries, Zahn unfolds an intricate tale of adventure sure to please his many fans.โ โPublishers Weekly on Angelmass
Product Description
Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in Night Train to Rigel. But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anythingโฆand anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit.
Accompanied by Bayta, a woman with strange ties to the robot-like Spiders who run the Quadrail, and dogged by special agent Morse who suspects him of murder, Compton races the Modhri from station to station to acquire a set of valuable sculptures from a long-dead civilization. What the Modhri wants with them is anybodyโs guess, but if Compton canโt outwit it, the whole galaxy will find out the hard way.