Jack Four

De: Neal Asher

Narrado por: Nathaniel Priestley

Created to die - determined to live.

Jack Four - one of 20 human clones - has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador, and they only want him for their experimentation program. But there is something different about Jack. No clone should possess the knowledge that’s been loaded into his mind. And no normal citizen of humanity’s Polity worlds would have this information.

The prador’s king has been mutated by the Spatterjay virus into a creature even more monstrous than the prador themselves. And his children, the King’s Guard, have undergone similar changes. They were infected by the virus during the last humans-versus-prador war, now lapsed into an uneasy truce. But the prador are always looking for new weapons - and their experimentation program might give them the edge they seek.

Suzeal trades human slaves out of the Stratogaster Space Station, re-engineering them to serve the prador. She thinks the rewards are worth the risks, but all that is about to change. The station was once a zoo, containing monsters from across known space. All the monsters now dwell on the planet below, but they aren’t as contained as they seem. And a vengeful clone may be the worst danger of all.

©2021 Neal Asher (P)2021 Macmillan Publishers International Ltd

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Neal Asher’s books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain." (John Scalzi, author of the Old Man’s War series)

Narrator was passionless and flat

I thought the narration was very poor, monotonous and really flat - I’ll have to read this one as after 14 hours of listening, I really couldn’t tell you very much about the plot or characters etc - found the presentation so dull, my thoughts would wander else where. Disappointed as I’m a Neal Asher fan

Not up to Asher’s usual standard

Being a longtime fan of Neil Asher and the rich and terrifying universe he has created I couldn’t help at being disappointed with this one. Perhaps it was the first person perspective. Rather than creating a sense of intimacy or urgency it played out like a rather long winded first person shooter. Even the hooders, usually a terrifying menace in prior stories, felt like props that popped up at the end of a level and then went on their merry way. Overall entirely missable.

So good

It is hard to believe that someone can conjure such a detailed storyverse

One of the best Neal Asher books