373 pages

English language

Published April 17, 2006 by Ace Books.

ISBN:
978-0-441-01375-3
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OCLC Number:
86074568

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5 stars (1 review)

"Near the end of the twenty-seventh century, when the interstellar age was just dawning, two ships set out from Earth to escape the fascist theocracy that had taken over North America. One was the Bremerhaven, the other the Seeker. On a distant planet, the voyagers established a colony they named Margolia. Then they and the colony disappeared from recorded history." "Thousands of years later, the legendary status of Margolia has made it the new Atlantis - and of special interest to antiquities dealer Alex Benedict when he comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and Chase Kolpath follow a deadly trail to the Seeker - strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the center of the mystery that is Margolia - …

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reviewed Seeker by Jack McDevitt (Ace science fiction)

Great Read!

5 stars

Seeker is the third Alex Benedict novel from Jack McDevitt. We follow Alex on a new adventure from the viewpoint of his assistant, Chase Kolpath. Alex and Chase face harrowing circumstances as they search for a lost colony that left Earth over 9,0000 years ago.

A small cup with a mysterious name and logo on it turned up at their antiquities business, Rainbow. From there, they must find out where the cup came from and that leads to an adventure, and payout, of a lifetime.

I enjoyed the story, but it felt like a copy of the previous two books with the details changed. Alex and Chase have to dodge assassins and saboteurs to find their prize. I really liked that Chase got to spend so much time with the Mutes while she was doing her research. It gave me a lot of perspective about them and they’re not so …

Subjects

  • Space ships
  • Alex Benedict (Fictitious character)
  • Antique dealers
  • Fiction

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