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Nick Hyde is a volunteer, investigating massacres in a near-future Africa torn apart by wars, plagues, rogue biotechnology and corporate greed. While investigating a fresh atrocity site, his party is attacked by fast-moving, pale-skinned things, and few survive.
Despite the authorities' insistence that they were drugged-up child soldiers, and warnings that it would be unwise to disagree, Nick decides to investigate further.
This is McAuley in perils-of-corporate-biotech mode, which he usually does well, but something here just didn't quite gel for me, with several of the plot turns feeling like pointless detours, only there to delay the ending. It sounds harsh, put like that, but it was more a sort of nagging background feeling while I enjoyed the rest of the book, more as a travelogue through a plausible near-future dystopia than anything else.
Nick Hyde is a volunteer, investigating massacres in a near-future Africa torn apart by wars, plagues, rogue biotechnology and corporate greed. While investigating a fresh atrocity site, his party is attacked by fast-moving, pale-skinned things, and few survive.
Despite the authorities' insistence that they were drugged-up child soldiers, and warnings that it would be unwise to disagree, Nick decides to investigate further.
This is McAuley in perils-of-corporate-biotech mode, which he usually does well, but something here just didn't quite gel for me, with several of the plot turns feeling like pointless detours, only there to delay the ending. It sounds harsh, put like that, but it was more a sort of nagging background feeling while I enjoyed the rest of the book, more as a travelogue through a plausible near-future dystopia than anything else.