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“May have to read the rest of this series. This one has good characters with an engaging story.”
radnor wrote this review Friday, May 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Well-known antiquities dealer, Alex Benedict, gets a mysterious message from popular horror writer, Vicki Greene, a woman he has never met before. She asks for his help, but by the time Alex and his assistant, Chase Kolpath, track her down, they find she has undergone a mind-wipe and is no longer the person she was. Before the mind-wipe, she had transferred a large amount of money into Alex's account.
aprillee wrote this review Wednesday, May 20 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
He feels an obligation to find out what happened to Vicki Greene. They trace her footsteps on a distant planet she had recently visited. Salud Afar is so far beyond the galaxy the night sky is devoid of stars, save for one vastly distant star that is sometimes called The Devil's Eye.
The travelogue of the sites and history and people of Salud Afar is interesting and not without adventure and excitement between the sight-seeing. The mystery is solved around two-thirds through the book and what remains is a planet-shattering secret that, when revealed, will affect the human Confederacy as well as the worlds of the insectoid, mind-reading Mutes, as the two space-faring civilizations inch closer and closer to war.
The last part is full of missions and diplomacy and politics and PR, with huge stakes, as well as action and suspense. It seemed like a very different kind of story than the first part, but it ultimately all hung together and had a satisfying conclusion.”
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