Great North Road - Peter F. Hamilton
Category: Novel
Narrator: Unknown
Tags: Novel, Sci-Fi, Adults
A century from now, thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years, humanity has solved its energy shortages, cleaned up the environment, and created far-flung colony worlds. The keys to this empire belong to the powerful North family - composed of successive generations of clones. Yet these clones are not identical. For one thing, genetic errors have crept in with each generation. For another, the original three clone brothers have gone their separate ways, and the branches of the family are now friendly rivals more than allies., Or maybe not so friendly. At least thats what the murder of a North clone in the English city of Newcastle suggests to Detective Sidney Hurst. Sid is a solid investigator whod like nothing better than to hand off this hot potato of a case. The way he figures it, whether he solves the crime or not, hell make enough enemies to ruin his career. Yet Sids case is about to take an unexpected turn: Because the circumstances of the murder bea
