The Third Lynx (Quadrail 02)

Former government agent Frank Compton foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in Night Train to Rigel. But the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence, has walkers, unwilling hosts that can be anywhere, anything...and anyone. And Compton is the only man who knows how to fight them, as they wage a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit. Accompanied by Bayta, a woman with strange ties to the robot-like Spiders who run the Quadrail, and dogged by special agent Morse who suspects him of murder, Compton races the Modhri from station to station to acquire a set of valuable sculptures from a long-dead civilization. What the Modhri wants with them is anybody’s guess, but if Compton can’t outwit it, the whole galaxy will find out the hard way.

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this Gripping Sequel To 2006's night Train To Rigeltakes Hardboiled Intelligence Operative Frank Compton And His Winsome Assistant, Bayta, In Search Of An Archeological Relic. They Hope To Protect It From The Modhri, An Alien Group Mind Who Needs It For A Sinister Plan That Could Lead To Galactic War. When A Man Connected With The Relic Is Murdered On A Quadrail Interstellar Train, Compton And Bayta Head Off To Find His Nephew And His Fiancée. Their Quest Is Hampered By Suspicious Inspector Morse Of The Eurounion Security Service, Who Seems To Have An Old Grudge Against Compton, And Various Hostile Aliens Telepathically Possessed And Controlled By The Modhri. Memorable Characters Such As Compton And Batya's Wise Bellido Ally, Korak Fayr; The Growing Intimacy Between The Pair; And Loving Details Of The Almost-plausible Quadrail Technology Lift This Sf Action Thriller. (nov.)

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Former government agent Frank Compton had foiled a plot to enslave the galaxy in "Night Train to Rigel." In this sequel, Compton goes up against the Modhri, an ancient telepathically linked intelligence waging a secret war against the galactic civilizations linked by the Quadrail, the only means of intra-galactic transit.