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Conscience of the Beagle
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by Patricia Anthony
Sales Rank : 1346882
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Hardcover: 201 pages
Publisher: Wildside Pr; 1st hardcover ed edition November 1, 1993
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1880448300
ISBN-13: 978-1880448304
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
From Booklist
After 150 years as a tranquil, staunchly religious colony of Earth, the planet Tennyson is rocked by a series of deadly terrorist bombings, among the victims of which are several people who are later identified as revolutionaries. Called in especially from the Home Forces on Earth because of his stalwart reputation, Maj. Dyle Holloway leads a crack team of detectives that includes the mind of a dead investigative genius downloaded into the body of an android, a shaky demolitions expert, and a police officer who may be a spy from headquarters. As Holloway wrestles with his own paranoia and nightmarish flashbacks to the only case he never solved--the murder of his wife--the evidence begins to indicate that the culprit behind the bombings is a high-level member of Tennyson's own government--in fact, the man who hired the investigators. Combining quick, deft characterization with sharp, suspenseful first-person narration (Holloway's), Anthony's third and shortest novel is easily her best. Carl Hays
From Kirkus Reviews
Interstellar detective yarn from the author of two excellent novels involving aliens (Cold Allies, 1992; Brother Termite, p. 896). Major Dyle Holloway and his team--Szabo the psychic, demolitions expert Arne, and the humanoid robot Beagle--are sent by Home Force of Earth to planet Tennyson, a religious dictatorship now enduring a series of terrorist bombings in which prominent scientists and dissidents have been killed. Handicapped by guilt over his failure to solve the murder of his wife, Lila, Holloway is further inhibited by knowing that one of his team is a spy; neither does he trust Vanderslice, Tennyson's Minister for Science. Holloway questions Tal Hendrix, wife of one of the dead dissidents, and initiates a sexual relationship with her; Tal tells him that Vanderslice is the head of the secret police. Arne is killed by a bomb; Szabo, having lost his psychic powers, confesses to being the spy, and commits suicide--but who is causing the explosions, and why? Beagle's investigations will prove crucial, as Holloway discovers why, and by whom, his wife was murdered. Told in a creamy-smooth first-person, present tense: an altogether satisfyingly complex if occasionally overwrought puzzler. Anthony's meteoric rise to the novelistic front ranks is thoroughly deserved. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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