Night Shade Books is proud to reissue Neal Ashers Agent Cormac series, a fast-moving, edge-of-your-seat science fiction adventure from one of todays most exciting SF talents. But just how powerful is it? And how does everything connect? Only Agent Cormac can find out. And roaming the planet at the same time is the mysterious rogue biophysicist Skellor, who possesses something so powerful that Polity AIs will stop at nothing to acquire it. All the while, on that dangerous world, a long-term rebellion from its slave population bubbles, nearly ready to boil over, kept in check only by an arsenal of powerful laser arrays controlled by an elite group called the Theocracy. In his quest for the truth, Cormac navigates through the deadly world of Masada-a planet with no breathable air and full of monstrous predatory creatures, including the weird and terrible gabbleducks. Nobody knows why, but all the signs point to Dragon, a gigantic bioconstructed entity. The outlink station of Miranda has been destroyed. a solid entry in the series and a damn good SF novel.- SFF World On a remote planet, with mysterious forces swirling around him, Agent Ian Cormac returns to face a threat that could endanger the entirety of the Polity. Book Synopsis One of the more important books in Ashers Polity milieu. About the Book On a remote planet, with mysterious forces swirling around him, Agent Ian Cormac returns to face a threat that could endanger the entirety of the Polity. and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself. This raises questions: Why was Dragon, a massive bioconstruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile, an entity called the Legate is distributing toxic Jain nodes. From those who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down because something alien is pursuing them. Those coming through it have been tasked with taking the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. It is the fourth novel in the Gridlinked sequence.įrom 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity.

Polity Agent is a 2006 science fiction novel by English writer Neal Asher.

Polity Agent by Neal Asher