Description
In a near-future England reshaped by global warming—where the countryside has turned tropical and the coastline has retreated—Greg Mandel, a hardened veteran of a second Gulf War, is pulled back into danger as an assassin hired for one last assignment. Tasked with protecting a teenage corporate heiress, Mandel must navigate shifting loyalties, corporate power plays, and the uneasy politics surrounding the technologies and forces that keep the world running. As he closes in on threats that don’t stay neatly contained, the mission becomes a test of survival and identity, revealing how violence and ambition can be engineered as carefully as any system. With its propulsive, sometimes convoluted momentum and richly rendered sense of place, the novel blends action with themes of moral compromise, postwar trauma, and the cost of progress in a warming world.
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paperback
Tor Books
Published Oct 1, 2011
448 pages
ISBN: 9780330537742
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First Published
1993
Language
eng
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