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Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in Night Train to Rigel . But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anything...and anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit.
Accompanied by Bayta, a woman with strange ties to the robot-like Spiders who run the Quadrail, and dogged by special agent Morse who suspects him of murder, Compton races the Modhri from station to station to acquire a set of valuable sculptures from a long-dead civilization. What the Modhri wants with them is anybody's guess, but if Compton can't outwit it, the whole galaxy will find out the hard way.
Author Notes
Timothy Zahn was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 1, 1951. He received a B.S. degree in physics from Michigan State University in East Lansing in 1973 and a M.S. degree in physics from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in 1975. In 1975, Zahn began writing science fiction as a hobby. When his thesis advisor died in 1979, effectively wiping out three years of work, he decided to try making a living at writing. Since then, Zahn has published short stories, novelettes, novels, and short fiction collections. He is best known for writing the Star Wars the Thrawn Trilogy: Heir to the Empire, Dark Force Rising, and The Last Command. The novella, Cascade Point (1984) won a Hugo Award. He also writes numerous series including Cobra, Blackcollar, Dragonback, and Conquerors' Trilogy.
Zahn co-authored with David Weber A Call To Duty, the first book in the Manticore Ascendant Series, which made the New York Times bestseller list in October 2014.
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Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
This gripping sequel to 2006's Night Train to Rigel takes hardboiled intelligence operative Frank Compton and his winsome assistant, Bayta, in search of an archeological relic. They hope to protect it from the Modhri, an alien group mind who needs it for a sinister plan that could lead to galactic war. When a man connected with the relic is murdered on a Quadrail interstellar train, Compton and Bayta head off to find his nephew and his fiancee. Their quest is hampered by suspicious Inspector Morse of the EuroUnion Security Service, who seems to have an old grudge against Compton, and various hostile aliens telepathically possessed and controlled by the Modhri. Memorable characters such as Compton and Batya's wise Bellido ally, Korak Fayr; the growing intimacy between the pair; and loving details of the almost-plausible Quadrail technology lift this SF action thriller. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Cop-turned-PI Frank Compton continues (from Night Train to Rigel, 2005) investigating the Modhri, an imperialistic mass mind that works through walkers, members of species it has taken over. It and several of the galactic superrich are racing to grab sculptures from a long-vanished civilization. When one would-be collector is murdered on a Quadrail interstellar train, Compton winds up the unwilling partner of a high-level Terran security operator he suspects is a walker. Then the trigger for a weapon that could destroy the Quadrail system is discovered, and Quadrail's owners give Compton access to some of their weapons. Good thriller, full of red herrings, blind alleys, and rising tension.--Murray, Frieda Copyright 2007 Booklist
Library Journal Review
In the future, intragalactic transit is carried out by Quadrail, a transportation system maintained by robotic, spiderlike creatures that answer to a woman named Bayta. Frank Compton, an ex-government agent-turned-private investigator, becomes involved in his most important case yet as he tries to confront the hive-minded Modhri, whose "host bodies" could be anywhere and who are determined to wreck the fragile union of galactic civilizations. In this sequel to Night Train to Rigel, the award-winning author of numerous Star Wars novels has created his own freewheeling, fast-talking galactic traveler. For most sf collections. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.