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"Unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful, and impossible to forget." —The Times
In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one — maybe two — people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever.
Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy.
Concealing her new identity — and her particular set of abilities — might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.
The Culture Series
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Use of Weapons
The State of the Art
Excession
Inversions
Look to Windward
Matter
Surface Detail
The Hydrogen Sonata
Series:
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"Banks writes space opera on the grand scale: he measures time in eons, space in lightyears, tragedies in gigadeaths."Time
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"Unexpectedly savage, emotionally powerful, and impossible to forget."The Times (London)
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"This tale of intricate politics and interstellar warfare ably demonstrates that Banks is still at the height of his powers."Publishers Weekly
- On Sale
- Feb 10, 2009
- Page Count
- 624 pages
- Publisher
- Orbit
- ISBN-13
- 9780316005371
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