num_pages: 562
description: From eight hundred years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity and those coming through it have been sent specially to take the alien maker back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut downbecause something alien is pursuing them. The gate is then dumped into a nearby sun. From those refugees who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. This, of course, raises questions: why was Dragon, a massive biocontruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity; why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing pernicious Jain nodes...And a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself.
language: English
title: Polity Agent
titlecomplete: Polity Agent (Agent Cormac, #4)
characters: Arphan, The Legate, Jack Ketch, Shoala, Celedon, Thorn (Neal Asher), Jerusalem, Freyda, Scar (Neal Asher), Horace Blegg, Dragon (Neal Asher), D'Nissan, Orlandine, Chaline Tazer Irand, Ian Cormac, Thellant, The Maker, Mika (Neal Asher), Arach
genres: Fiction, Space Opera, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction Fantasy, Science Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Space, Aliens, Adventure, Fantasy
ratings_count: 6211
series: Agent Cormac, Polity Universe (chronological)
publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications, Inc.