{"product_id":"9781509862511-the-warship","title":"The Warship","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeal Asher ramps up the action in this second book in his Rise of the Jain trilogy. Expect epic conflicts in space, extraordinary aliens and impossible choices . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war, in this second volume of Rise of the Jain.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheir nemesis lies in wait . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOrlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of lethal Jain technology, swarming within the deadly accretion disc’s event horizon. All seems just as she planned. Yet behind her back, forces incite rebellion on her home world, planning her assassination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarth Central, humanity’s ruling intelligence, knows Orlandine was tricked into releasing her weapon, and fears the Jain are behind it. The prador king knows this too – and both foes gather fleets of warships to surround the disc.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe alien Client is returning to the accretion disc to save the last of her kind, buried on a ship deep within it. She upgrades her vast weapons platform in preparation, and she’ll need it. Her nemesis also waits within the disc’s swirling dusts – and the Jain have committed genocide before.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Warship\u003c\/i\u003e is set in Neal Asher's popular Polity universe.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain' – John Scalzi, author of \u003ci\u003eOld Man's War \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Collapsing Empire.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451522789750,"sku":"9781509862511","price":9.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29861841.jpg?v=1760462835","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781509862511-the-warship","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}