Life is sweet for Oz Blackstone, private enquiry agent turned money magnet. Right now things couldn't be better. But a visit from his pal DI Mike Dylan sends him on the trail of a poison pen, and soon threats become reality, and he and his nearest and dearest become targets.
Newly married to his childhood sweetheart and happily settled in Glasgow, private inquiry agent Oz Blackstone is looking for a touch of the unexpected in his life. When he's introduced to Everett Davis, champion wrestler and head of the Global Wrestling Alliance, he knows he's found it.
Introduced in Clarke's 1973 Hugo- and Nebula-winning Rendezvous with Rama and most recently seen in Clarke and Lee's Rama II , the massive spacecraft Rama is back, but the luster and sense of wonder generated by its first appearances have eroded. The once-exciting vessel, a "cylindrical worldlet," has been turned into a cheaply painted backdrop for an equally garish exposition of vice-lord politics. When Rama returns to earth and demands a sample of humanity for observation, a lying, corrupt government hands over 2000 citizens.
In 1973, Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama won the Hugo, Nebula and Campbell awards. This new novel is the second in a trilogy about the mystifying world-ships and their flybys of our solar system. Unfortunately, the focus is no longer on alien mysteries, but on the petty concerns of an unlikely assortment of cosmonauts.
Her mind still filled with thoughts of her dead ex-husband, Oz, Primavera Blackstone is in Spain with their son Tom when their peace is breached again with the arrival of her elderly but formidable aunt, Adrienne McGowan. All is not well in Auntie Ades world; her roguish son Frank has become involved with a shady international casino project and has disappeared.
