- Fiction, Government investigators, Brothers and sisters, Murder
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.
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Contemporary, epic, richly built and meticulous.
- contemporarynostalgic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Iain Banks
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 593
- Publisher
- Heyne Verlag, Orbit, Hachette Audio
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- German, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780356521701
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“A light breeze produced a dry rattling sound from some nearby bushes.”
Iain Banks (16 February 1954 – 9 June 2013) was a Scottish author. He wrote mainstream fiction under the name Iain Banks, and science fiction as Iain M. Banks, including the initial of his adopted middle name Menzies. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Source: Wikipedia
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