Apparently, this is a sequel, but I could not tell from reading The Icarus Plot. (A quick note: When looking up the image of The Icarus Plot, I tripped over a Zahn novel from 2000 called The Icarus Hunt. ![]() There’s only the ever-looming threat of total annihilation if Rourke makes even the slightest slipup. ![]() There are no grand shootouts or fistfights. The next 350 pages are pure Hitchcockian thriller, only in science fiction. The opening involves four pages of thought, observations, cultural notes, and analysis in order to head off a bar fight, and it’s all entertainingly readable. The writing is smooth and effortless, serving multiple purposes at once. The tone of the narration is not quite SciFi noir, but close. If there were any justice in the world, someone would have labeled him and Kevin J Anderson SciFi Grandmasters twenty years ago. The Icarus Plot is everything readers have come to expect from Timothy Zahn. Can Rourke discover the truth in an endless stream of lies? Can he find out who to trust before he gets stabbed in the back? If he survives, can he manage his revenge? This is one long Mission Impossible scenario, only several groups are running their own long cons on everyone else. While it may be the best genre description for the book, it is a serious understatement. When I first heard about this book at at Baen panel, Toni Weisskopf described it at a sci-fi caper novel. The woman Rourke is hunting is playing a game of her own, and she has her own allies. One of the worst drug lords in the spiral arm of the galaxy has added his own bounty. Other bounty hunters are in on the chase. For Rourke, it looks like payback time.īut Rourke is about to find himself hip deep in a plot with more players than he can possibly realize. The target? Another member of the Icarus. ![]() Now they’re hired by a mysterious pair who want them to return to bounty hunting. Now Rourke and Selene are trailblazers, surveying unknown worlds. Five years ago, bounty hunter Gregory Rourke and his partner Selene were hunting the Icarus ’ captain Jordan McKell when they were both ambushed. Six years ago, the freighter Icarus disappeared with all hands aboard.
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