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4/5 Pan Macmillan Cover artist Jon Sullivan Language English Pages 400 Publisher Macmillan Publishers | 4/5 Goodreads 5/5 Barnes & Noble Country United Kingdom Publication date 29 January 2015 Originally published 29 January 2015 Page count 400 Genres Novel, Science Fiction | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Dark intelligence written by neal asher
Dark Intelligence is a 2015 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. The story is set in the Polity universe and focuses on the black AI Penny Royal. The plot follows several characters, each searching for Penny Royal for different reasons and culminates in a clash around the world of Masada. The plot is closely linked to that of Asher's 2011 novel The Technician. The main protagonist is Thorvald Spear, a new character to Asher's novels, who has been reanimated in a cloned body after his mind storage crystal was recovered over a century after his death. As the novel develops it becomes clear that Spear's memories have been adjusted allowing the character to serve as an unreliable narrator.
Spear begins the hunt for Penny Royal due to a planted hate in his memplant. The quest for vengeance eventually leads him to betray Isobel Satomi