Machine Vendetta Av Alastair Reynolds

<p>Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.<br><br>Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply''s most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and virtually unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organisation?<br><br>As his colleagues pick up the pieces, Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries got a little too personal, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the enquiry by proxy.<br><br>In using her - even though he had his reasons - did Dreyfus also put her in the line of fire?<br><br>And what does Tench''s misadventure tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?<br><br><br>Praise for Alastair Reynolds:<br><br>''A leading light of the new British space opera'' <i>Los Angeles Review of Books on Alastair Reynolds</i><br><br>''One of the giants of the new Britis