Ideas abound in McDevitt's classy riff on the familiar lost-space-colony theme. Read onlineįrom Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. McDevitt lives in Georgia with his wife, Maureen. He is a multiple Nebula Award nominee, and won for his novel Seeker.
About the AuthorJack McDevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, English teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer, and is now a full- time writer. (Nov.) (c) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. There are hints of the existential malaise that permeates McDevitt's Priscilla Hutchins novels, but despite the book's terrible events, the series retains its essential optimism about redemption and progress. McDevitt's characters may live 9,600 years in the future, but their values are entirely 21st century, which will endear them to some SF fans and turn off others.
Death hounds Benedict and Chase as they inch closer to an old shame someone will kill to protect.
When the slab proves inexplicably difficult to collect, Benedict and his partner, Chase Kolpath, investigate its connections to explorer Sunset Tuttle's abrupt abandonment of his quest to find another intelligent race. Benedict innocently arranges the purchase of a curious but not obviously significant stone tablet with an unreadable inscription. From Publishers WeeklyFans of antiquities dealer Alex Benedict will find their expectations fully met by his fifth outing (after 2008's The Devil's Eye).
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