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A review by macindog
Shadow of the Scorpion by Neal Asher
4.0
The story centers round Ian Cormac, showing his beginnings as a soldier, promoted to the Sparkind and later as an ECS agent. Interspersed with this are flashbacks to his childhood, relating the details of his mother and brother's tales during the Prador war and how he has no memories of his father or how he died in that war.
Another installment in Asher's Polity Universe, this tale gives us some of the background to Ian Cormac's early life, his joining ECS and how he acquires that lethal Tenkian weapon of his. It also introduces the war drone Amistad, who we meet later in The Technician. Yes, I read them in the wrong order but it doesn't really matter as this is really about Ian Cormac.
Not a blockbuster of a novel but a decent read for fans of the Polity and Ian Cormac.
Another installment in Asher's Polity Universe, this tale gives us some of the background to Ian Cormac's early life, his joining ECS and how he acquires that lethal Tenkian weapon of his. It also introduces the war drone Amistad, who we meet later in The Technician. Yes, I read them in the wrong order but it doesn't really matter as this is really about Ian Cormac.
Not a blockbuster of a novel but a decent read for fans of the Polity and Ian Cormac.