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From Darkest Skies

From Darkest Skies (Book 1)

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After a five year sabbatical following the tragic death of his wife and fellow agent Alysha, Keona Rause returns to the distant colony world of Magenta to resume service with the Magentan Intelligence Service. With him he brings an artificial recreation of his wife's personality, a simulacrum built from every digital trace she left behind. She has been constructed with one purpose - to discover the truth behind her own death - but Keona's relationship with her has grown into something more, something frighteningly dependent, something that verges on love.

Cashing in old favours, Keona uses his return to the Service to take on a series of cases that allow him and the artificial Alysha to piece together his wife's last days. His investigations lead him inexorably along the same paths Alysha followed five years earlier, to a sinister and deadly group with an unhealthy fascination for the unknowable alien Masters; but as the wider world of Magenta is threatened with an imminent crisis, Keona finds himself in a dilemma: do his duty and stand with his team to expose a villainous crime, or sacrifice them all for the truth about his wife?

Read by Peter Noble

(p) 2017 Orion Publishing Group

Critics Review

A first class SF thriller. Even though Peters wrapped up the case, I still wanted to know more about the universe of Magenta.
Peter F. Hamilton
Not only a gripping SF crime thriller but a moving investigation into the limitations and capabilities of artificial intelligence.
GUARDIAN
A masterly piece of writing and plotting that manages to merge classy space-opera with a police procedural as twisty as a Christie
Joanne Harris
Immersive SF, full of world-building detail, with a twisted love story at its heart.
Financial Times
Interesting and powerful
SFX
It's easy to see why FROM DARKEST SKIES has already been optioned for TV, what with its cinematic action and fast-paced plot, but the real strength lies in the humanity of its characters.
SciFiNow
Peters' convincing
world-building and a tense plot mean
that this is a debut destined to make
waves.
THE MORNING STAR
It reminded me... of Peter F Hamilton's work... I thoroughly enjoyed it and with two more sequels due, it's a solid and promising start.
FANTASY BOOK REVIEW
Fast and fluid, compelling and above all thoroughly enjoyable.
SF BOOK
Crime noir in the style of Blade Runner.
THE BOOK BAG
A perfect example of what I like to read
THE BOOK BUNDLE
Peters has created a masterpiece here with his eloquent writing and fascinating characters.
RED HEADED BOOK LOVER
All the rigour of a tightly plotted classic crime story with all the technicolour thrills of SF at its most gaudy. Wonderful.
LOVE READING
Author Sam Peters
Narrator Peter Noble
Series From Darkest Skies
Duration 10 hours and 10 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781409172109
Format Audiobook
Publisher Orion
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Science fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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