Echo
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4.0 • 157 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Sunset Tuttle spent a lifetime looking for alien species. Twenty-five years after Tuttle's death, Alex Benedict discovers a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic symbols, now in the possession of Tuttle's one- time lover Rachel Bannister. Benedict is determined to decipher its secret-one Bannister doesn't want revealed. Could it be that Tuttle's obsessive quest was successful?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of antiquities dealer Alex Benedict will find their expectations fully met by his fifth outing (after 2008's The Devil's Eye). Benedict innocently arranges the purchase of a curious but not obviously significant stone tablet with an unreadable inscription. When the slab proves inexplicably difficult to collect, Benedict and his partner, Chase Kolpath, investigate its connections to explorer Sunset Tuttle's abrupt abandonment of his quest to find another intelligent race. Death hounds Benedict and Chase as they inch closer to an old shame someone will kill to protect. McDevitt's characters may live 9,600 years in the future, but their values are entirely 21st century, which will endear them to some SF fans and turn off others. There are hints of the existential malaise that permeates McDevitt's Priscilla Hutchins novels, but despite the book's terrible events, the series retains its essential optimism about redemption and progress.
Customer Reviews
A good read
An entertaining read but not quite up to his usual standards. The problem with writing amazing books is that if you write one which is very good instead of brilliant everyone says how disappointed they are!
It was a good read, definitely worth the money and the time.
JR
Loved the latest book in the series. I feel like I know the characters like close friends looking forward to the next adventure!!
Wonderfully enthralling!
Discovered this author while on holiday in Cairns. The entire detective series was a superbly great read.. Each book was better than the last and I look forward to another story with Chase and Alex!!