Matter
By: Iain M. Banks.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 593
ISBN-13: 9780316005364
Subjects: Government investigators -- Fiction; Brothers and sisters -- Fiction; Murder -- Fiction; Life on other planets -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one--maybe two--people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilizations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity--and her particular set of abilities--might be a dangerous strategy. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.--From publisher description.
Notes: "A culture novel"--Jacket.

"Science fiction Orbit"--Jacket.