Drakon (Bk. 4)

by Stirling, S. M

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Baen, January 1, 1996. Paperback. Good. It is four centuries after the ending of Stirling's previous novel of the Draka Domination, The Stone Dogs (1990). An accident with an experimental stardrive flings a genetically tailored Draka warrior, Gwendolyn Ingolfsson, across universes and time into contemporary New York City. Kenneth Lafarge, a secret agent for those who fled the Draka, comes to Earth in pursuit of her. Caught in the cross fire are New York cop Henry Carmaggio and his lover, investment counselor Jennifer Feinbaum. The Draka's plan is, very simply, to open an interdimensional gate and bring in a Draka army to conquer Earth. Defeating this cheerfully bloodthirsty scheme involves nonstop action and Stirling's usual wealth of technical detail, wry wit, and superlatively drawn female characters, not the least of them the appalling Ms. Ingolfsson. --Roland Green

Book summary

Detective-Lieutenant Henry Carmaggio had never seen anything as bad as the Warehouse Massacre. Probably because the terror that is killing with easy precision is Gwendolyn Ingolfsson, a Draka from a parallel Earth that sees humans as prey for conquest.