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Also by Alastair Reynolds:

Halcyon Years, February 2026
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Machine Vendetta, September 2023
Paperback / e-Book
Shadow Captain, January 2019
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The Best Science Fiction of the Year, April 2017
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Poseidon's Wake, September 2016
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Poseidon's Wake, February 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
On the Steel Breeze, June 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Blue Remembered Earth, June 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Terminal World, June 2011
Paperback
House Of Suns, June 2010
Paperback (reprint)
House Of Suns, June 2009
Hardcover
The Prefect, June 2008
Hardcover
Galactic North, June 2007
Hardcover
Century Rain, June 2006
Paperback

THE PREFECT
By: Alastair Reynolds

Ace Hardcover
June 2008
On Sale: June 3, 2008
416 pages
ISBN: 0441015913
EAN: 9780441015917
Hardcover
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A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe that’s “sublime entertainment” and “gripping in the extreme.”( Locus)

Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds.

His current case: investigating a murderous attack against one of the habitats that leaves nine hundred people dead, a crime that appalls even a hardened cop like Dreyfus. But then his investigation uncovers something even more potentially dangerous—a covert plot by an enigmatic entity seeking nothing less than total control of the Glitter Band…