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9780441015917

The Prefect

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  • ISBN13:

    9780441015917

  • ISBN10:

    0441015913

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-06-03
  • Publisher: Ace Hardcover

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A full-length novel set in the Revelation Spaceuniverse that’s sublime entertainment” and gripping in the extreme.”(Locus) Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of 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, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band…

Author Biography

Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He studied at Newcastle and St. Andrew-'s Universities and has a Ph.D. in astronomy. He is a former astrophysicist for the European Space Agency. He is now writing full-time.

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