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The Departure (Owner Trilogy 1) Book

The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from this safe distance, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people and too few resources, and they need twelve billion to die before Earth can be stabilised. So corruption is rife, people starve, and the poor are policed by mechanised overseers and identity-reader guns. Citizens already fear the brutal Inspectorate with its pain inducers. But to reach its goals, the Committee will unleash satellite laser weaponry, taking carnage to a new level. This is the world Alan Saul wakes to, travelling in a crate destined for the Calais incinerator. How he got there he doesn't know, but he remembers pain and his tormentor's face. He also has company: Janus, a rogue intelligence inhabiting forbidden hardware in his skull. As Janus shows Saul an Earth stripped of hope, he resolves to annihilate the Committee and their regime. Once he's discovered who he was, and killed his interrogator ...'Full-tilt action sequences Delivers plenty of thrills' SFX 'Fast, dramatic stuff definitely not one for the faint hearted' SFFWorld.com 'I had an absolute blast with this book his work really does get better and better' FalcataTimes blogRead More

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  • Blackwell

    The beginning of a new series from a master of space opera The Argus Space Station looks down on a nightmarish Earth. And from this safe distance, the Committee enforces its despotic rule. There are too many people and too few resources...

  • Foyles

    The beginning of the science fiction Owner series, by a master of space opera, Neal Asher.

  • 0330457616
  • 9780330457613
  • Neal Asher
  • 12 April 2012
  • Tor
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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