Polaris
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Hace sesenta años, la nave espacial Polaris fue hallada totalmente vacía, y el destino de sus pasajeros queda envuelto en misterio. Ahora, para conmemorar el aniversario de su desaparición, se va a celebrar una subasta de todos los objetos que quedaron abandonados en la nave. Valiéndose de sus contactos, Alex Benedict, uno de los marchantes de antigüedades más prominentes de la galaxia, se ha asegurado de que algunos de esos artefactos caigan en sus manos. Pero una explosión destruye casi toda la colección; esto convence a Alex de que alguien ha acabado con esos objetos para ocultar lo que sucedi a bordo de la nave. Y eso es precisamente lo que tiene que descubrir, aunque implique que tenga que arriesgar la vida...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This SF mystery's smooth and exciting surface makes it difficult to appreciate how exceptionally good it is at combining action and ideas. After a string of well-developed space operas, McDevitt returns to the lead characters of his second novel, A Talent for War (1988): antiquarian entrepreneur Alex Benedict (think Indiana Jones with an eye for profit) and his beautiful assistant, Chase Kolpath (think smart, sexy Dr. Watson). Decades earlier, in a future version of the Marie Celeste incident, the spaceship Polaris was discovered drifting and empty, its captain and passengers apparently vanished in an instant. Now, Alex and Chase realize that someone is tracking down relics of the Polaris and is willing to kill anyone who gets in the way. Alex is first of all a businessman, but he becomes stubbornly fascinated with the impossible puzzle. While Chase saves Alex's neck from increasingly ingenious attacks, he untangles a complex plot. The real problem turns out to be not how the mass disappearance was done but the tangled motives behind it. McDevitt does a fine job of creating different worlds for Alex and Chase to explore as they hunt clues. Through Chase's wry narration, the novel also succeeds in presenting characters who may be concealing important facets of themselves. That's appropriate in an SF mystery novel, but especially in one that turns out to have a surprisingly serious human core.
