Third novel of Banks’s The Culture. It follows a man frequently hired by Special Circumstances to destabilize planetary governments or sometimes to begin wars. He does the nasty things The Culture pretends to be above.
Told with two different timelines, one moving forward, the other backwards, we discover who this fellow is, and what his background as been, and why he is so very very effective.
Complex, in depth look at the characters with humor coming from the drones, as usual, and a surprisingly dense and complex look at the all too human cost of war.
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