num_pages: 373
description: The Barnes &amp; Noble ReviewAlex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath -- ambitious antiquities dealers from Jack McDevitt's A Talent for War (1989) and, more recently, Polaris -- are back in Seeker, a story in which the two antiquarians search for a legendary lost colony that is both a science fiction thriller and a remarkably complex mystery.More than 9,000 years after an interstellar transport named Seeker left an overcrowded and politically repressive Earth with the dream of founding a new society on an unspecified planet, Benedict and Kolpath stumble across a ceramic cup that was once on the now-legendary lost starship. But tracking down how the ancient artifact got from the ship into the hands of a maltreated woman and her thuggish boyfriend turns out to be more than Benedict and Kolpath bargained for -- as their search leads them across multiple star systems and straight into an anonymous assassin's crosshairs. But as the killer closes in, the two courageous antiquarians uncover the jaw-dropping truth about the lost starship and the legendary colony Equally reminiscent of Frederik Pohl's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Heechee saga (Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, et al.) and a classic Ellery Queen mystery, McDevitt's Seeker will appeal to readers of hard-core science fiction, as well as adventurous mystery fans looking for an out-of-this-world story. And just like Polaris, Seeker is characterized by a bombshell of an ending that will leave readers absolutely awestruck. Paul Goat Allen
language: English
title: Seeker
titlecomplete: Seeker (Alex Benedict, #3)
genres: Audiobook, Science Fiction, Adventure, Science Fiction Fantasy, Space, Aliens, Space Opera, Fiction, Mystery, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 7577
series: Alex Benedict
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Nebula Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: John W. Campbell Memorial Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1230796800000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Form
publisher: Ace