Matter

611 pages

English language

Published Dec. 21, 2009 by Orbit.

ISBN:
978-0-316-00537-1
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OCLC Number:
225870429

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In a distant-future, highly advanced society of seemingly unlimited technological capability, a crime is committed within a war. For one brother 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 civilizations 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.

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Subjects

  • Government investigators -- Fiction
  • Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
  • Murder -- Fiction
  • Life on other planets -- Fiction