Inversions - Iain M. Banks

An engrossing portrait of an alien world and two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret from the internationally bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas Iain M. Banks. nOn a backward world with six moons, an alert spy reports on the doings of one Dr.

Vosill, who has mysteriously become the personal physician to the king despite being a foreigner and, even more unthinkably, a woman. Vosill has more enemies than she first realizes. But she also has more remedies in hand than those who wish ill can ever guess.

n nElsewhere, in another palace across the mountains, a man named DeWar serves as chief bodyguard to the Protector General of Tassasen, a profession he describes as the business of assassinating assassins. DeWar, too, has his enemies, but his foes strike more swiftly, and his means of combating them are more direct. n nNo one trusts the doctor, and the bodyguard trusts no one, but is there a hidden commonality linking their disparate histories?

Spiraling around a central core of mystery, deceit, love, and betrayal, Inversions is a dazzling work of science fiction from a talent to be reckoned with (Locus Magazine) at the height of his remarkable powers.n