Penumbra

When a young tug pilot's career is ruined by a collision in Earth orbit he has no choice but to accept a commission to fly an eccentric ship builder to planet far from the trade routes. When they discover alien ruins on the planet and the hulk of a missing generation ship they are thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that reaches back centuries. Meanwhile on earth a young Indian police officer is trying to track down a serial killer little suspecting that the killer is linked to what is happening on a planet light years away and that her own past holds the key to everything that is happening. Eric Brown has written a novel that brings together an extraordinary imagination, rare sensitivity to character and a love of Eastern philosphy. This is a key addition to the career of one of the UK's favourite SF writers. For Bennett, life beyond Earth is just a dream until the Mackendrick Foundation hires him to pilot a lightship to the Rim world of Penumbra, and to a fateful meeting with a mysterious alien race. Meanwhile, on Earth, Lieutenant Rana Rao has just been promoted into the path of a serial killer.