- Title:
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Shadow of the Scorpion
- Written by:
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Neal Asher
- Read by:
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Ric Jerrom
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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10
- Duration:
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12 hours 20 minutes
- Published:
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August 28 2018
- Available Date:
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August 28 2018
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781509872411
- Genres:
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Fiction; Contemporary Science Fiction; Cyberpunk; Futuristic Adventure; Science Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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Price
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A stunning space drama featuring a young agent Cormac and the horrific legacy of the Prador Wars.
Ian Cormac was raised to adulthood during the end of the war between the human Polity and the vicious arthropoid race, the Prador. In Neal Asher's Shadow of the Scorpion, Cormac is haunted by childhood memories of a sinister scorpion-shaped war drone and the burden of losses he doesn’t remember.
In the years following the war he signs up with Earth Central Security, and is sent out to help either restore or simply maintain order on worlds devastated by Prador bombardment.
There he discovers that though the old enemy remains as murderous as ever, it is not anywhere near as perfidious or dangerous as some of his fellow humans, some of them closer to him than he would like.
Amidst the ruins left by wartime genocides, he discovers in himself a cold capacity for violence, learns some horrible truths about his own past and, set upon a course of vengeance, tries merely to stay alive.
'... skillfully combines graphic action and sensitive characterisation and is Asher's most accomplished novel to date.'
The Guardian
'A powerhouse cocktail of lurid violence, evocative world-building and typically grotesque monsters, but it’s amazing how much emotion he’s also layered into what could have been a simplistic SF potboiler.'
SFX
'Ian Cormac is, it seems, here to stay in the collective consciousness of sci-fi literature … Thoroughly enjoyable stuff.'
SciFi Now