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Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. Hardcover UK, first printing and true first edition. Roberts' third novel, preceded by the critically acclaimed Salt and his second novel On. Picaresque adventure, and "a strong novel of ideas emerges, its narrator - and his sponsors - eloquent of enlightening nightmares." Nick Gevers - Locus, October 2002. A criminal, an avatar in this future society which has forgotten about crime, is sprung from a prison at the center of a star and is employed to kill the entire population of a planet and leave the planet intact. His job takes him to many exotic worlds where mankind searches for the excitement of new experiences. Full color wrap-around dustjacket illustration by Chris Moore.

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