The Icarus Twin: Volume 2
By (Author) Timothy Zahn
Baen Books
Baen Books
12th May 2023
United States
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
813.6
Hardback
320
Width 156mm, Height 235mm, Spine 28mm
497g
A NEW NOVEL IN THE ICARUS SERIES FROM NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADMIRAL THRAWN STAR WARS NOVELS TIMOTHY ZAHN
For years Gregory Roarke and his Kadolian partner Selene worked as crocketts, combing through the atmospheres of uninhabited worlds for places that might be colonized or hold valuable resources. Now, they quietly work for the Icarus Group, a top-secret government organization hunting for portals created by a long-vanished alien race, portals that can teleport a person hundreds or thousands of light-years in the blink of an eye.
Roarke and Selene are searching one such possibility when they find that someone appears to be stalking them. They evade their pursuers and return to find that a man named Easton Dent has been searching the Spirals databases for the names Gregory Roarke and Icarus.
Roarke reluctantly agrees to meet with him. But that first contact is cut short, and hours later Roarke is arrested and accused of Dents murder.
More importantly to Roarkes Icarus Group overseers, that brief meeting also confirms that Dent was in recent contact with a portal.
But the alien Patth are also searching for such portals, and they are also on the trail. Its now a race . . . and the Patth have resources and ruthlessness far beyond anything Roarke and Selene can match.
Timothy Zahn is a Hugo Award winner and the author of the New YorkTimes #1 bestseller,Heir to the Empire, as well as the best-selling StarWars: Thrawn series of novels. Born in Chicago, he earned a B.S. inphysics from Michigan State University and an M.S. in physics from the University of Illinois. He sold his first story to Analog in 1978and immediatelyattracted attention as a new writer of science fiction based on real,cutting-edge science. Baen published his popular Cobra trilogy in onevolume. His other popular series include the Conqueror and Dragonbacknovels. With David Weber and Thomas Pope, he is the author of novelsA Call to Duty, A Call to Arms, A Call to Vengeance, and A Call toInsurrection. Zahn has written more than 50 novels, including the recentCobra Rebellion series entries Cobra Outlaw and Cobra Traitor.