The Prefect

Alastair Reynolds

Book 1 of Prefect Dreyfus Emergency

Language: English

Publisher: Ace Books

Published: Jan 2, 2007

Date Read: Apr 1, 2012
Form: Novel
Pages: 703
Read Status: read
Shelves: read
Word Count: 183964

Description:

A full-length novel set in the Revelation Spaceuniverse that’s “sublime entertainment” and “gripping in the extreme.”(Locus)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.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…