The aliens are here. And they want to help. The extraordinary new
project from one of the country's most acclaimed and consistently
brilliant SF novelists of the last 30 years.
The Jackaroo have given humanity fifteen worlds and the means to reach
them. They're a chance to start over, but they're also littered with
ruins and artifacts left by the Jackaroo's previous clients.
Miracles that could reverse the damage caused by war, climate change,
and rising sea levels. Nightmares that could forever alter humanity - or
even destroy it.
Chloe Millar works in London, mapping changes caused by imported scraps
of alien technology. When she stumbles across a pair of orphaned kids
possessed by an ancient ghost, she must decide whether to help them or
to hand them over to the authorities. Authorities who believe that their
visions point towards a new kind of danger.
And on one of the Jackaroo's gift-worlds, the murder of a man who has
just arrived from Earth leads policeman Vic Gayle to a war between rival
gangs over possession of a remote excavation site.
Something is coming through. Something linked to the visions of Chloe's
orphans, and Vic Gayle's murder investigation. Something that will
challenge the limits of the Jackaroo's benevolence ...
