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Jack McDevitt brings back the daring Alex Benedict from A Talent for War, thrusting him into a far-future tale of mystery and suspense that will lead the prominent antiquities dealer to the truth about an abandoned space yacht called the Polaris.
- Sales Rank: #224190 in Books
- Published on: 2005-10-25
- Released on: 2005-10-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.69" h x 1.00" w x 4.15" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 400 pages
From 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.
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From Booklist
A mystery surrounds the starship Polaris, whose crew vanished while observing a stellar collision. Some 60 years later, two freelance archaeologists discover a good many artifacts that belonged to the vanished crew, the appearance of which attracts much attention--frivolous, festive, larcenous, and even outright homicidal. The archaeologists set out to track down whoever is out to get them and to recover the stolen artifacts, if possible, and at least protect the surviving ones. They lead a merry chase, involving both interstellar voyages and 14-hour train trips (McDevitt sees railroads in any civilized future) and revealing a good many carefully guarded secrets about both VIPs and ordinary citizens. The traveling affords readers a panoramic view of humanity 2,000 years hence, and that at book's end only part of the mystery has been revealed bodes strongly of a sequel, which would be no bad thing at all, at all. Another highly intelligent, absorbing portrayal of the far future from a leading creator of such tales. Roland Green
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About the Author
Jack McDevitt is a former naval officer, taxi driver, customs officer and motivational trainer. He is a multiple Nebula Award finalist who lives in Georgia with his wife Maureen.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Another great installment in the unique Alex Benedict series
By Tim F. Martin
_Polaris_ is another excellent installment in the Alex Benedict series, a series which I believe in November of 2008 will be a four volume series. Though later books in the series reference very briefly earlier adventures, the books can be read out of order or as stand-alones (I read the third volume for instance first and only later bought and read the first and second novels).
Just as in the other novels, the two main characters in _Polaris_ are Alex Benedict and Chase Kolpath, two dealers in antiquities, a two-person firm (Alex is the owner and boss and Chase is his sole employee) that generally keeps its eyes and ears open for new objects to sell to their wealthy clientele, private individuals who want a piece commemorating some great historical person, culture, ship, or event.
The two get wind of some historical artifacts coming up for sale, artifacts connected to a famous ship known as _Polaris_. Sixty years ago it accompanied a scientific expedition to watch the collision of two stars. Unlike the other ships present it that extremely rare stellar event, it was there for pleasure; the _Polaris_ was a luxury craft sent out by the Department of Planetary Survey and Astronomical Research with a pilot and six passengers. These six passengers were famous people at the time (and still famous in the novel's present), leading scientists, media personalities, and captains of industry. There to view a magnificent and awe-inspiring natural event, the ship failed to accompany the research vessels when they jumped back home.
Not responding to hails, a rescue mission was sent, Survey first diverting a nearby freighter. The crew of the ship found when they arrived _Polaris_ adrift in space. They boarded the vessel and found no evidence of damage, the ships Artificial Intelligence turned off but still functional (and unaware of any problems). The pressure suits and the ship's lander were still present, and the way personal items were present, books still open to where they were being read, food left on the table, seemed to indicate that the crew had left suddenly. Where had they gone though? No one was found on the ship, no blood, no signs of any struggle. An ever expanding rescue mission which eventually included many dozens of Survey, military, and even private vessels found nothing. No bodies adrift in the vacuum of space, no place where they might have set down, nothing. They were never found and years later, proclaimed dead.
The disappearance of the pilot and six passengers was one of the most romantic mysteries of Alex's and Chase's time, a topic subject to some of the wildest speculations and conjectures about aliens, space diseases, ghosts, or stranger theories. Whatever the cause, Alex and Chase were delighted to find that they had an opportunity to purchase from Survey select items connected with the passengers and crew and them offer them up for sale to their own grateful and wealthy clientele.
Unfortunately, all does not go as planned. A bomb goes off at the site of the auction where the majority of the artifacts were housed. The artifacts there are destroyed, though the few that Chase and Alex saved still exist. Though the authorities and even our two protagonists don't have any reason (at first) to believe the bombing had any connection with the _Polaris_, they begin to wonder as someone is investigating the artifacts that Alex and Chase sold and also someone broke into their house, obviously looking for something. Alex and Chase conclude that someone is trying to find something, something hidden in one of the artifacts. They want to prevent that item from being discovered, whether that means destroying the object, buying it themselves, or stealing it. Also, they are not above killing those who get in their way. What is this object? What is so important after sixty years, when everyone connected with the doomed flight is retired or deceased? Who is after them?
I enjoyed the book greatly, I liked the murder mystery aspect of it, it unfolded very well and in such a way I began to guess what the answer was. The book had some similarities to the first volume, _A Talent For War_, such as Alex and Chase investigating harmless social clubs that are essentially groups of hobbyists who get together to celebrate their interest in something historical and finding deep, dark secrets connected to famous people and events that would once found totally rewrite history. The book is told from the point of view of Chase, a difference from the first volume (and a point of view also used in _Seeker_). There is also a good deal of action in the book, particularly at the end.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Really solid entertainment. I like McDevitt more with each new book that I read.
By frumiousb
I was so happy to read this book. I had been on a run of books that left me cold, didn't quite do it for me, or outright irritated me. I was beginning to think that I had somehow lost my capacity for enjoying reading. I swam into this book almost immediately-- sweet relief-- it was good fun right from the beginning.
I appreciate McDevitt more and more every book that I read by him. People make a lot of fun of pot boilers. I have to say, however, that it actually takes a lot of writing skill to keep the water cooking. His books aren't likely to be reviewed by glowing eyed fanatics who want to make a point about science fiction as Very Serious Literature. But do they need to be? Whenever I pick up one of McDevitt's books, I know that I am going to get a clever plot, good pacing, solid characters and real entertainment value. Worth a lot to me.
Polaris is another Alex Benedict novel, although this time told from the perspective of Chase. As much a detective novel as scifi (more difficult to combine well than you think), the two of them are off to solve the fate of the Polaris-- a space yacht full of scientists that disappeared sixty years before the book takes place.
Good fun.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
O.k. but a little irritating
By It's All George Bush's Fault ©
I found good points and bad points. The good is that I like McDevitt's writing. The quality of his writing is a step above most science fiction writers. Unfortunately that's also part of the bad because the book dragged enought that I was drawn into noticing the technical quality of the writing. More irritating was the repeated use of the same plot technique. Gee, the lights won't turn on. That can't mean that the bad guys are around, so lets go on in. Gee, the computer doesn't seem to be working right. That can't mean that there's something wrong with the space ship, so let's take off. It reminded me of the TV shows where the person says, "I can't tell you the secret information on the phone, but meet me tomorrow, and I'll tell you in person." Guess who's going to die before tomorrow? This flaw really detracted from the book for me because I couldn't get into a story where the two heros were so blind. The story itself is o.k.; I just wish it had been told better.
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