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After being lost in space for eleven years, Gabe has returned, and is trying to find a new life for himself after being presumed dead—just as Alex and Chase are relearning how to live and work with him. But when a seemingly alien artifact goes missing from Gabe's old collection, a mystery is uncovered concerning its origins and it grants everyone an opportunity to dive into solving it as a team, once again.
When a lead on the artifact is tied to a dead pilot's sole unrecorded trip, another clue leads to one of the greatest mysteries of the age: the infamous disappearance of a team of scientists aboard a space station orbiting a black hole—the Amelia Earhart of their time. With any luck, Alex, Chase, and Gabe may be on the trail of the greatest archaeological discovery of their careers.
Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt, who Stephen King has called "the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke," has created another terrific science fiction mystery in his beloved Alex Benedict series.
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Release date
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- ISBN: 9781481497992
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- ISBN: 9781481497992
- File size: 9347 KB
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- English
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March 18, 2019
A slow-to-develop plot and a dated vision of the far future undermine McDevitt’s disappointing eighth novel featuring antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and pilot Chase Kolpath (after 2014’s Coming Home), set several thousand years in the future. Alex’s archaeologist uncle, Gabe, has returned home after escaping a time warp. Gabe’s disappointed to learn that, in his absence, Chase had returned a trophy with unusual markings to Angela Harding. Angela had obtained it from her brother, Rick, who’d been on a space station, the Octavia, that was studying a black hole but then mysteriously vanished. The reason for the Octavia’s disappearance remains a mystery, but Gabe, Alex, and Chase are determined to solve it by tracking down the trophy and investigating the major theories: that a spurned suitor of one of the crew somehow managed to blow up the Octavia, or that aliens were involved. The story doesn’t really get going until Gabe and Chase venture off-planet in search of clues, and McDevitt underdevelops his central concept. Even series fans will find this one challenging to get through.
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