The Line Of Polity

Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic is somehow involved. Sent out on a titanic Polity dreadnought the Occam Razor agent Cormac must investigate the disaster. Meanwhile on the remote planet Masada the longterm rebellion can never rise aboveground as the slave population is subjugated by orbital laser arrays controlled by the Theocracy in their cylinder worlds and by the fact that they cannot safely leave their labour compounds. For the wilderness of Masada lacks breathable air ... and out there roam monstrous predators called hooders and siluroynes not to mention the weird and terrible gabbleducks.