Xeelee RedemptionMichael Poole finds himself in a very strange landscape. This is the centre of the Galaxy. And in a history without war with the humans, the Xeelee have had time to built an immense structure here. The Xeelee Belt has a radius ten thousand times Earth's orbital distance. It is a light year in circumference. If it was set in the solar system it would be out in the Oort Cloud, among the comets but circling the sun. If it was at rest it would have a

Boone obsessively follows a deadly trail to the darkest edges of human cruelty

she receives a call from the departmental chief which signals the strangest assignment of her career - to trail a Japanese monk wandering through the snowy wasteland to the east of Freiburg

shows the incredible diversity of the region

demanding clients at work

From Hannah Kent

The truth is her real powers have more to do with separating families from their money than actually seeing into the netherworld

It's a transparent

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and sometimes difficult

firm friends

and she has the run of the place the rest of the time

'The List' - Dieter Hess