Thorvald Spear, resurrected from his death over a hundred years earlier,
continues to hunt Penny Royal, the rogue AI and dangerous war criminal
on the run from Polity forces. Beyond the Graveyard, a lawless and
deadly area in deep space, Spear follows the trail of several enemy
Prador, the crab-like alien species with a violent history of conflict
with humanity.
Sverl, a Prador genetically modified by Penny Royal and slowly becoming
human, pursues Cvorn, a Prador harboring deep hatred for the Polity
looking to use him and other hybrids to reignite the dormant war with
mankind.
Blite, captain of a bounty hunting ship, hands over two prisoners and
valuable memplants from Penny Royal to the Brockle, a dangerous
forensics entity under strict confinement on a Polity spaceship that
quickly takes a keen interest in the corrupted AI and its unclear
motives.
Penny Royal meanwhile continues to pull all the strings in the
background, keeping the Polity at bay and seizing control of an attack
ship. It seeks Factory Station Room 101, a wartime manufacturing space
station believed to be destroyed. What does it want with the factory?
And will Spear find the rogue AI before it gets there?
War Factory, the second book in the Transformation trilogy, is
signature space opera from Neal Asher: breakneck pacing, high-tech
science, bizarre alien creatures, and gritty, dangerous far-future
worlds.
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