by Alastair Reynolds · 2008
ISBN: 0441015913 9780441015917
Category: Fiction / Science Fiction / Space Opera
Page count: 410
<b>A full-length novel set in the <i>Revelation Space</i>universe that’s “sublime entertainment” and “gripping in the extreme.”(<i>Locus</i>)</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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…