Cowl

Neal Asher's protagonists must race through time to escape their worst nightmare - as events escalate for assassins, soldiers and civilians alike.

Neal Asher is on top form in Cowl , his fast-paced space opera. He''s the nightmare you never imagined . . . In the far-future, the Heliothane Dominion triumphed after a bitter war. But some enemies escaped into the past, to wreak havoc across time. The worst is Cowl - originally human, until artificially-forced evolution made him something else entirely. Polly is unprepared for her involvement with Nandru Jurgens. He''s a Taskforce soldier, now hunted by killers. Nor can Polly resist the alien ''tor'' she''s compelled to attach to her arm. But when she''s dragged through time, she learns fast. Tack has a tor fragment embedded in his wrist - a bloody reminder of Heliothane''s government. As their vat-grown assassin, he''s no stranger to violence. But the extent of this mission is different. Meanwhile, a beast hunts its targets through time''s alternate dimensions. This is Cowl''s pet tor - and it''s eager to feed.

His easy style and intriguing plot make for a great story that treats the reader as an adult rather than an educationally subnormal adolescent

Vorwort
Neal Asher's protagonists must race through time to escape their worst nightmare as events escalate for assassins, soldiers and civilians alike.

Autorentext
Neal Asher was born in Billericay, Essex, and divides his time between the UK and Crete. The majority of his novels are set within one future history, known as the Polity universe which encompasses many classic science fiction tropes including world-ruling artificial intelligences, androids, hive minds and aliens. His full-length novels include Gridlinked, The Skinner, The Line of Polity, Cowl, Brass Man, The Voyage of the Sable Keech, Hilldiggers, Prador Moon, Line War, Shadow of the Scorpion, Orbus and The Technician. His Owner series novels include The Departure, Zero Point and Jupiter War.

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It's a war that will echo through time

In the far future, the Heliothane Dominion triumphed after a bitter war. But some enemies escaped into the past, wreaking havoc across time to undo their defeat. The worst is Cowl, originally human, until remade into something else entirely. Cowl sends his terrifying hyper-dimensional pet, the torbeast, hunting through time for human specimens. It sheds its scales to order, and anyone who finds one is dragged back to feed the beast.

In our own near future, Tack is a programmable killer for government. And when he acquires a scale, his doom seems inevitable. However, the Heliothane plans to use Tack to bring down Cowl. Also, Polly, once one of Tack's targets, barely escaped when she found a scale. But - to cheat death again - she'll have to help Tack save the human race.

'An excellent read'
Publishers Weekly
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'Crackling energy and slam-bang action'
Kirkus Reviews*