Jump to book subject area navigation Jump to general navigation Jump to start of page content
Search   
Fiction 

 

The Prefect

Alastair Reynolds

A rollercoaster ride through the dark and turbulent universe of REVELATION SPACE: an interstellar thriller where nothing - and no one - is what they seem . . .

*

Reviews

  

*

Author Q&A

  

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a policeman of sorts, and one of the best. His force is Panoply, and his beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone. These days, his job is his life.
A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case - until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder: a covert takeover bid by a shadowy figure, Aurora (who may once have been human but certainly isn't now), who believes the people of the Glitter Band should no longer be in charge of their own destiny.
Dreyfus discovers that to save something precious, you may have to destroy part of it.


* Download a text extract from The Prefect (Word file)

 

"An enjoyable novel which shows Reynolds growth as a writer. Though good before, I think this is one his best novels to date."

Mark Yon

SFFWORLD.COM

*Read more reviews

 

The Prefect

Buy The Prefect from Amazon
£17.99
Hardback
416 pages
248 x 171 mm
ISBN-10: 0575077166
ISBN-13: 9780575077164
Publication: April 2007
'the prefect' is also available in paperback format
 Orion Group Publishing logo - link to home page * * *