World of Water

Dev Harmer, reluctant agent of Interstellar Security Solutions, has travelled to ocean world Robinson D, nicknamed Triton. Here, settlements belonging to the Terran Diaspora have been coming under attack by members of the planet's sub-aquatic indigenous race. ISS suspects the involvement of an agent provocateur working for humankind's galactic rivals, the artificial intelligence civilisation known as Polis+. As the violence escalates, Dev finds himself battling to restore order - but he has only seventy-two hours before his genetically engineered host form breaks down irreversibly. And all as an ancient god-beast rises from the depths to usher in an apocalypse...

A MESSAGE FROM THE AUTHOR

World Of Fire was the first in a new series of SF thrillers, that went where no James Lovegrove novel had gone before: into outer space. The stars beckon, the void gapes, and out there lie planets aplenty, each as different from the others as can be. Planets where the sun scorches the surface to molten slag and the inhabitants live underground, sharing their environment with deadly burrowing mole-worms. Planets made entirely of water, teeming with living submarines and jellyfish houses and gilled mermen. Planets that are gas giants, riven with storms, home to hardy airborne pioneers in their butterfly ships and balloon citadels.

It's the far future, and humankind's colonies extend beyond the solar system into the darkest, remotest corners of the galaxy. Our bodies genetically engineered to suit different environments, we have become a universe-wide species, as adaptable and rapacious as ever. But our empire has its limits, its borders, and enemies lurk at the periphery where our territory abuts against theirs. A hostile artificial-intelligence race has its own expansionist ambitions, and special agents are needed at the potential flashpoints to patrol the walls and man the watchtowers, maintain the equilibrium and keep the peace. Special agents like Dev Harmer, grievously injured military veteran whose only hope for salvation is to travel from world to world as a professional troubleshooter, his brain patterns beamed into cloned host bodies, until he has earned enough credit to return home and be restored to full health. The series is high-spirited, bone-crunching spy thriller action, James Bond meets Star Trek, a Cold War at the final frontier.
-James Lovegrove