Dark Agent

Thrilling space adventure from Neal Asher, sci-fi’s most explosive author. Captain Blite and Agent Cormac fight for the future as the plans of a twisted AI threaten the galaxy and time itself. The second entry in the thrilling Time's Shadow trilogy.

Magnificently awesome . . . Asher turns it up to eleven

Asher rocks with XXX adrenaline while delivering a vivid future

Nonstop action , and unimaginable stakes

Gleeful but superbly controlled action-adventure

A powerhouse cocktail of lurid violence , evocative world-building and typically grotesque monsters

Without a doubt the most entertaining science fiction author writing today

Asher’s work continues to combine the best of advanced cybertech and military SF

Asher is a modern master of sci-fi

Neal Asher divides his time between Essex and Crete, mostly at a keyboard and mentally light years away. His full-length novels are as follows. First is the Agent Cormac series: Gridlinked , The Line of Polity , Brass Man , Polity Agent and Line War . Next comes the Spatterjay series: The Skinner , The Voyage of the Sable Keech and Orbus . Also set in the same world of the Polity are these standalone novels: Prador Moon , Hilldiggers , Shadow of the Scorpion , The Technician , Jack Four , Weaponized , and War Bodies . His Transformation trilogy comprises Dark Intelligence , War Factory and Infinity Engine . The Departure , Zero Point and Jupiter War are set in a dystopian future and connect to the World Walkers standalone, while Cowl transports us across time. The Rise of the Jain trilogy is made up of The Soldier , The Warship and The Human . Dark Agent is the second novel in the Time’s Shadow trilogy, also part of the Polity universe.