Gridlinked Audiobook (Free)

In outer space you can’t ever feel sure that your adversary is altogether human.

The runcible buffers on Samarkand have already been mysteriously sabotaged, eliminating plenty and destroying a terraforming project. Agent Cormac must reach it by ship to begin a study. But Cormac offers incurred the wrath of a vicious psychopath known as Pelter, who is prepared to follow him across the galaxy using a terrifying android in tow.

Despite the sub-zero heat range of Samarkand, Cormac discovers signs of life: they are two ‘dracomen’, alien beasts contrived by an extra-galactic entity phoning itself ‘Dragon’, which is a huge creature consisting of four conjoined spheres of flesh each a kilometre in size. Caught between the byzantine wiles of the Dragon and the lethal fury of Pelter, Cormac needs to miss very nimbly indeed to rescue the Samarkand project and secure his own existence.

Gridlinked may be the first sci-fi thriller in Neal Asher’s compelling Agent Cormac series.