《The Third Claw of God》作者： - Adam-troy Castro 【EPUB】

zaq

The Third Claw of God An Andrea Cort Novel Adam-Troy Castro For the Ellison Nine, who had an adventure of their very own aboard another elevator entirely Contents The Cast Prologue 1 Assassins 2 Royal Carriage 3 The Khaajiir 4 Porrinyards 5 The Big Lie 6 Full Stop 7 The First Death 8 Post-Mortem 9 Magrison’s Woman 10 Mendez 11 Dejah’s View 12 Philip, Excluded 13 Stranglehold 14 The Fourth Bettelhine 15 First the Corpse, then the Bartender 16 Jason and Jelaine 17 The Khaajiir’s Testament 18 Bloodbath 19 Xana 20 Bettelhine Family Business Epilogue Acknowledgments About the Author Praise Other Books by Adam-Troy Castro Credits Copyright About the Publisher THE CAST Not all of these people appear onstage in the pages that follow; in fact, many of them don’t. But all are mentioned at least once. They are all given equal status here to avoid giving away the identities of any who might make unexpected entrances. To further inhibit spoilage, one is a fraud with no relevance to anything that happens in this novel, even in passing. You may assume that this personage was off somewhere, minding his or her own business or solving some other crime among the idle rich, while Andrea did her thing. ANDREACORT ANDASSOCIATES ARTIS BRINGEN: Andrea Cort’s long-time Dip Corps superior, no longer her boss but still a handy information source; back home at the wheelworld New London. ANDREA CORT: Infamous child war criminal, now all grown up; Prosecutor-at-Large for the Diplomatic Corps of the Hom.Sap Confederacy, and secret defector to the alliance of software intelligences known as the AIsource, now honored guest of Hans Bettelhine. BERNARD CORT: Andrea’s father. (Deceased.) VERONICA CORT: Andrea’s mother. (Deceased.) OSCIN PORRINYARD: Andrea’s bodyguard and lover, the male half of a cylinked pair, sharing the same enhanced mind and personality. SKYE PORRINYARD: Andrea’s bodyguard and lover, the female half; like Oscin, is not to be considered a separate person but rather a separate avatar of the same composite intelligence. THETWOKNOWNAISOURCEFACTIONS AISOURCE: Conglomeration of software intelligences, originating from several a