Hidden Persuaders

"Cause and effect. It applies to everything." Taren Capel's legacy is unleashed, and death stalks the streets. As Uvanov fights for his career and life, Paullus contacts a force which could be the salvation of the people of Kaldor -- or their destruction. With Carnell gone, Iago is the only one who can save the city from its fate -- but to do that, he must sacrifice everything...

"Taren Capel? The mad god of the robots. He was famous, briefly, but then, weren't we all?" Someone is spinning a web. Links are forming between one man's need for violence and another's desire for power; a desert ore processing station and a long dead enemy of the state. Someone, maybe everyone, is being manipulated. Carnell is the obvious culprit, but who is the psychostrategist working fo...

"You are dealing with a professional. Probably a hired killer. Resourceful, highly intelligent. A computer specialist." Kaldor: A city of robots on a world of robots. The Board runs the Company, and the Company runs the planet. Nothing happens in Kaldor City without the Board’s approval. So how come its members are dying? Company Chairholder Uvanov is faced with an escalating problem: politi...

"Evolution. No one said it was going to be easy." Eighteen months after her final confrontation with Iago, Blayes awakes to find Kaldor City in quarantine and herself on a Storm Mine in the Blind Heart Desert. Her companions are three strangely familiar figures, a vengeful spirit -- and a robot with a dangerous secret. Trapped in a claustrophobic, dreamlike environment, the former terrorist ...

"The man was a maniac. Now he's a dead maniac. How can a corpse be a threat?" Strange times have come to Kaldor City. A long-vanished prophet speaks again; a plot is uncovered hinting at corruption among the Founding Families. Even the robots on which the city depends might hold secrets that no one dares imagine. Carnell must pit himself against an unseen adversary in a game which may bring ...