The Devil's Eye
by:
Jack McDevitt (author)
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his assistant Chase Kolpath travel to the most remote of human worlds and uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval-a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden.
Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his assistant Chase Kolpath travel to the most remote of human worlds and uncover a secret connected to a decades-old political upheaval-a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780441017850 (0441017851)
Publish date: October 27th 2009
Publisher: Ace
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Series: Alex Benedict (#4)
TL;DR: An extremely fun mystery novel, retracing the steps of a famous author to find out what she discovered, and why it was being kept secret - and why people seemed willing to kill to hide it. Add to this an extension of the alien diplomacy from the previous books, and the narrator finally gets s...
Different from the other Alex Benedict/Chase Kolpath books I've read previously (I'm a bit perturbed that this series is still referred to as the Alex Benedict books, because only the first was written from his viewpoint, and frequently Benedict has been not much more than a somewhat eccentric sidek...
A good installment in the Alex Benedict series, keeps you guessing until the end of the mystery, which isn't actually the end of the story.
A good installment in the Alex Benedict series, keeps you guessing until the end of the mystery, which isn't actually the end of the story.