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A powerhouse SF debut featuring a jawdroppingly vivid hell-on-earth future, a brutal war against unknowable aliens, and Jake—a tough-as-nails anti-hero Three hundred years in our future, in a world of alien infiltrators, religious hackers, a vast convoying nation of Nomads, city-sized orbital elevators, and a cyborg pirate king who believes himself to be a mythological demon, Jakob is having a bad day. Nothing gets in the way of a hangover like being reactivated by your old C.O and told to track down an alien killing machine. The same kind of killing machine that wiped out my entire squad. And now it's in my hometown. My name is Jakob Douglas, ex-special forces. I fought Them. Just like we've all been doing for 60 bloody years. But I thought my part in that was done with. My boss has other ideas. If I didn't find the infiltrator then he'd let the Grey Lady loose on me. And believe me; even They've got nothing on her. So I took the job. It went to shit even faster than normal. And now I'm on the run with this teenage hacker who's had enough of prostitution. The only people I can rely on want to turn the internet into God. And now it turns out that They aren't quite what we'd all thought. I've been to the bottom of the sea and the top of the sky and beyond trying to get to the truth. And I still can't get far enough away from the Grey Lady. All things considered I'd rather be back at home deep in a whiskey bottle. Fast paced and intricately plotted, this science fiction adventure is set in a dark future against the backdrop of a seemingly never ending war, against an unknowable and implacable alien enemy.
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"If you've ever read any Richard Morgan you will be in familiar territory, only this feels darker, grittier, louder and more grounded than Morgan's work . . . I have no hesitation in recommending Veteran." —SF Book Reviews
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- PublisherGollancz
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0575094109
- ISBN 13 9780575094109
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages400
- EditorSpanton Simon
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Spyrotechnik (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition trade paperback with full number line. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLACK PEN, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON TITLE PAGE. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of covers and spine, corners very slightly bent, very faint creases to spine, 'Forbidden Planet Signed' label to front cover, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy, carefully read. 393pp. Three hundred years in our future, in a world of alien infiltrators, religious hackers, a vast convoying nation of Nomads, city sized orbital elevators, and a cyborg pirate king who believes himself to be a mythological demon Jakob is having a bad day. 'Nothing gets in the way of a hangover like being reactivated by your old C.O and told to track down an alien killing machine. The same kind of killing machine that wiped out my entire squad. And now it's in my hometown. My name is Jakob Douglas, ex special forces. I fought Them. Just like we've all been doing for 60 bloody years. But I thought my part in that was done with. My boss has other ideas. If I didn't find the infiltrator then he'd let the Grey Lady loose on me. And believe me even They've got nothing on her. So I took the job. It went to shit even faster than normal. And now I'm on the run with this teenage hacker who's had enough of prostitution. The only people I can rely on want to turn the internet into God. And now it turns out that They aren't quite what we'd all thought. I've been to the bottom of the sea and the top of the sky and beyond trying to get to the truth. And I still can't get far enough away from the Grey Lady. All things considered I'd rather be back at home deep in a whiskey bottle'. The author's debut novel, scarce signed. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 006783
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