Machine Vendetta

Machine Vendetta by Alastair Reynolds explores the complex dynamics of loyalty and enmity within Panoply, a small yet efficient police force. This force is dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.

Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and virtually unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organisation?

As his colleagues pick up the pieces, Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, during an investigation that linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the enquiry by proxy because the investigation had become somewhat too personal.

Although Dreyfus had his reasons, did his decision to utilise Tench also put her directly in peril? And what does Tench's misadventure tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?

Praise for Alastair Reynolds:

'A leading light of the new British space opera' Los Angeles Review of Books on Alastair Reynolds

'One of the giants of the new British space opera' io9 on Alastair Reynolds

'[Reynolds is] a mastersinger of the space opera' The Times (UK) on Blue Remembered Earth

'[Reynolds] is the most gifted hard SF writers working today' Publishers Weekly on Beyond the Aquila Rift