Liege-Killer (The Paratwa Saga, Book 1) (Paperback)

by Christopher Hinz (Author)

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Product Description
Two hundred years after Earth is devastated by nuclear war and genetically engineered Paratwa assassins, the humans of orbiting Earth colonies are at peace, until a series of murders reveal the reemergence of the Paratwa. Reprint. K. PW.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Tom Doherty Assoc Llc (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0812530756
• ISBN-13: 978-0812530759
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #722,004 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite sci-fi novels!, September 23, 2002

By	Empyreal (LA, CA) - See all my reviews

My friend bought this book for me as a joke because I found the cover art to be amusing. I had read the synopsis on the back of the book, but never seriously thought about reading it until my friend bought it for me. Boy am I glad she did! The book was an genuine page-turner with twists and surprises around every bend. It follows a paratwa - an assassin that is composed of two bodies but one mind - and the paratawa's hunters and victims. In a relatively peaceful existence where everything (including the weather) is controlled by technology, the citizens are literally sheep for the taking as the paratwa reaks havoc. Two paratwa hunters are unfrozen from stasis and sent on the hunt... with technolgoy enabling anybody to alter their identity and the Ash Ock able to fill any position of power, everybody becomes a suspect!

Not only is the book a fascinating and well-crafted story, it brings the eery question to mind of how much technology is too much? And when, not if, will humanity become its own worse enemy?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good start but the rest of the series dissappoints, April 18, 2002

By	Dixon Whitley (Albuquerque, New Mexico United States) - See all my reviews

This opening novel of a space opera sets up an interesting world and is based on an interesting idea. In this world earth is destroyed in a biological and nuculear war and humanity has moved to colonies in orbit. A deadly killer has been released by earths old enemies. Killers that are superhumans enties that have two bodies controled by the same mind.

This book introduces several interesting characters. More importanly the book gets the mood and setting right. The characters move around in style and the story flows well. This book is really a modern dime novel, with the privet eye replaced by a special ops expert.

Unfortuneatly as a trilogy this story fails rather badly. The second and third books do not work nearly as well as the first two. Only the main two characters are kept through all three books and they simply don't stand up the rigor of another seven hundred pages. It is never truly awful the more of this you read the less interesting it is. I can recomend this first novel as a good quick read, but don't feel bad if you don't get around to the sequals.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Favorite Book Ever, May 5, 1999

By A Customer

I found this book while browsing my library back in 1989. I have been a fan of Christopher Hinz ever since. Liege-Killer has become my favorite book of all time, and with good reason. It is fast paced and has a wonderful plot. I would tell everyone to read this book!