Great North Road (Hardcover) 9780345526663

from PDCRead

This is a monumental book in lots of ways, not just its length (1087 pages) or its size (slightly larger than a house brick), but also in the story that he writes here. It starts with a murder, and the body that is fished out of the river is a North, a family of genetic clones, and this corpse ha...

from Glennis.LeBlanc

I had high hopes for this book when I saw it was a mystery since I really enjoyed his Greg Mandel books. If you don't mind tons of flashbacks and how many of the characters end up knowing one another it is a very long but entertaining read. I did get the feeling that several minor plotlines could...

from TadAD

This one was going to get a higher rating until the very end. It was an extremely well done blend of high tech/science fiction and crime procedural. Unfortunately, the very end went way too deus ex machina, with a minor character swooping in with private, unfathomable technology that the entire r...

from RandyStafford

After something of a misstep with his Void Trilogy, Hamilton is back in top form. This has almost everything you expect in a Peter F. Hamilton novel: a murder mystery, soldiers, mysterious tech billionaires with ambitious ideas for transforming the world, gazillionaire families, detectives, a sor...

from speljamr

Police drama, mystery, military action, aliens, and expansive world building, all packed together in a 900+ page science fiction epic. Peter F. Hamilton just can't do small! And I'm all the happier for it. This is a must read book if you are a fan of science fiction and Peter F. Hamilton proves a...