Mass Effect: Deception

Informationen zum Autor William C. Dietz Klappentext An all-new adventure inspired by the award-winning videogame from BioWare! The universe is under siege. Every fifty thousand years, a race of sentient machines invades our galaxy to harvest all organic life-forms. They are the Reapers. Two people who know the truth are desperately searching for a way to stop the cycle: Navy admiral David Anderson and his partner, Kahlee Sanders. They have uncovered grisly evidence proving that the Reaper threat is real. But in so doing they have exposed the machinations of Cerberus, a secretive paramilitary organization, and its mysterious leader, the Illusive Man-putting David and Kahlee in mortal danger, for Cerberus will stop at nothing to protect its secrets. But along the way, they find an unlikely ally in Gillian Grayson, a young woman with extraordinary powers. Once the subject of horrifying scientific experiments, Gillian is now free-and beginning to master her deadly abilities. But after learning that Cerberus was responsible for the death of her father, Gillian swears vengeance against the group and the Illusive Man-threatening to unravel everything Kahlee and David are fighting for.one The Citadel “I don’t want to go,” Nick said stubbornly. “Why can’t I stay here?” David Anderson didn’t have any children of his own, and had the matter been left to him, the ex-­navy officer would have ordered the teenager out of the apartment with possibly unpleasant results. Fortunately, the woman he loved knew how to deal with such situations. Kahlee was in good shape for a woman in her forties, or thirties for that matter. As she smiled tiny creases appeared around her eyes. “You can’t stay here because David and I may want you to tell the Council what happened on the day Grayson invaded the Grissom Academy. It’s important to make sure that nothing like that ever happens again.” Nick had been shot in the stomach during the attack and sent to the Citadel for advanced medical treatment. So he knew about Grayson firsthand. Nick, with shoulder-­length black hair and a relatively small frame for a boy his age, looked hopeful. “Can I go to The Cube on the way back?” “Sure,” Kahlee replied. “But only for an hour. Come on—­let’s go.” A crisis had been averted, and Anderson was grateful. As they left the apartment the door locked behind them. An elevator took them down to the first floor and out into the hectic crush of the lower wards. A monorail loomed overhead, the pedways were crowded with individuals of every species, and the streets were jammed with ground vehicles. All of which was normal for the huge star-­shaped space station that served as the cultural, financial, and political hub of the ­galaxy. Anderson had been an admiral, and the Alliance’s representative to the Citadel Council, so he had spent a lot of time aboard the habitat. Everything was organized around a central ring. It was ten kilometers across, and the Citadel’s forty-­kilometer-­long “fingers” pointed from it to the stars beyond. The total population of the station was said to be in excess of thirteen million sentients, none of whom had played a role in creating the complex structure. The asari had discovered the station 2,700 years earlier while exploring the vast network of mass relays put in place by a space-­faring species known as the protheans. Having established a base on the Citadel, the asari learned how to create mass effect fields, and made use of them to explore the galaxy. When the salarians found the space station a few decades later the two races agreed to form the Citadel Council for the purpose of settling disputes. And as more species began to travel the stars, they had little choice but to follow the dictates of the technologically advanced Council races. Humans were relative newcomers and had only recently been granted a seat on the Citadel Council. For many y...

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William C. Dietz

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: William C Dietz, William C. Dietz
• Edition: Del Rey
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format A
• Sortie: 31.01.2012
• EAN: 9780345520739
• ISBN: 978-0-345-52073-9
• Pages: 336
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 21 mm
• Thèmes: Mass Effect; Mass Effect; Random House Worlds
• Catégorie: Littérature > Science-fiction , fantastique