Line War Audiobook (Free)

The Line War may be the 5th novel in Neal Asher’s well-known Agent Cormac series.

The Polity is under attack from a ‘melded’ AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack appears to have no coherence. When among Erebus’s wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural globe of no actual tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is usually delivered to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to regulate a new capability no individual should possess . and about Range War beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.

Further attacks and apparently indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring a few of the most harmful individuals in the Polity into the war. Mr Crane, the indefatigable brass eliminating machine sets out for vengeance, while Orlandine, a vastly-augmented haiman who herself controls Jain technology, looks for a weapon of appalling power and discovers allies from an ancient war.

On the other hand Mika, scientist and Dragon expert, is again kidnapped by that unfathomable alien entity and dragged into the center of items: to wake the manufacturers of Jain technology from their five-million-year slumber.

But Erebus’s attacks are not so indiscriminate, after all, and could very well herald the finish from the Polity itself . . .