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ISBN 1-58715-331-9
$15.99 US / $21.00 CAN / £13.00 UK
MURDER? THAT WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING...
The descendants of Expatria's first colonists from Earth have rejected technology. When Mathias Hanrahan, heir to the primacy of Newest Delhi, wants to reintroduce the old ways he is framed for his father's murder and forced to flee.
Recruited by a research team which is trying to relearn the ancient technologies, he goes to work for them, and against a background of impending war, Mathias discovers that strange messages are coming from space.
"...greetings from the followers of Ha’an and the people of ... we are a people of peace..."
"A first-class novel of character."
- Nexus (on Expatria Incorporated)
"Brilliantly shows a world in which religious belief is used to secular advantage."
- The Times (on Expatria Incorporated)
"It has been several years since a first novel has grabbed me the way Keith Brooke's Keepers of the Peace did."
- Locus
"A significant member of the 'Britpack' group, the generation of writers - also including Iain M Banks, Paul J McAuley, Ian McDonald and Stephen Baxter - who, in the late 80s and early 90s, hauled British SF out of its long post-New Wave slump."
- SF Site