Seeker
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The Barnes & Noble Review
Alex Benedict and his executive assistant, Chase Kolpath — ambitious antiquities dealers from Jack McDevitt's A Talent for War(1989) and, more recently, Polaris— are back in Seeker,a story in which the two antiquarians search for a legendary lost colony that is both a science fiction thriller and a remarkably complex mystery.
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More than 9,000 years after an interstellar transport named Seekerleft an overcrowded and politically repressive Earth with the dream of founding a new society on an unspecified planet, Benedict and Kolpath stumble across a ceramic cup that was once on the now-legendary lost starship. But tracking down how the ancient artifact got from the ship into the hands of a maltreated woman and her thuggish boyfriend turns out to be more than Benedict and Kolpath bargained for — as their search leads them across multiple star systems and straight into an anonymous assassin's crosshairs. But as the killer closes in, the two courageous antiquarians uncover the jaw-dropping truth about the lost starship and the legendary colony
Equally reminiscent of Frederik Pohl's Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Heechee saga (Gateway, Beyond the Blue Event Horizon,et al.) and a classic Ellery Queen mystery, McDevitt's Seekerwill appeal to readers of hard-core science fiction, as well as adventurous mystery fans looking for an out-of-this-world story. And just like Polaris, Seekeris characterized by a bombshell of an ending that will leave readers absolutely awestruck. Paul Goat Allen
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