In a world renowned within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime
within a war. For one man 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 civilisations 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.
關於作者:
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice
with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984.
He has since gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both
his mainstream and his science fiction novels.