Ex-government agent Frank Compton must halt a murderous plague that
threatens to turn the galaxy-spanning Quadrail into a ghost train in the
fourth installment of Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn's acclaimed
Quadrail series
The Chahwyn created the Spiders to keep their intra-galactic
transportation system, the Quadrail, safe and running smoothly, and
contracted ex-security agent Frank Compton to protect its integrity. So
far, Compton and his half-human, half-Chahwyn partner, Bayta, have had
their hands full keeping this essential link between occupied worlds
open and preventing the evil collective intelligence called the Modhri
from using it to spread their mind-controlling infection. But now a new
threat has boarded, one that troubles even the Modhri.
While the Quadrail is en route to the farthest edge of the galaxy, a
murder by poison occurs--then another and another--dark happenings that
are not only disturbing but also technically impossible. The system
Compton and Bayta have been charged with protecting is in grave danger
of derailment, and unless they can get to the deep roots of a sinister
conspiracy, chaos will come to the ordered universe.
This tour de force from Hugo Award winner Timothy Zahn rockets the
acclaimed Quadrail series to breathtaking new heights. The Domino
Pattern is an ingenious amalgam of hard science fiction and locked-room
murder mystery that would leave even the great Hercule Poirot
bedazzled.
