and beginning to question the motives of his AI masters.įurther attacks and seemingly indiscriminate slaughter ensue, but only serve to bring some of the most dangerous individuals in the Polity into the war. When one of Erebus’s wormships kills millions on the world of Klurhammon, a high-tech agricultural world of no real tactical significance, agent Ian Cormac is sent to investigate, though he is secretly struggling to control a new ability no human being should possess. The Polity is under attack from a ‘melded’ AI entity with control of the lethal Jain technology, yet the attack seems to have no coherence. All totally unfounded of course, as Line War not only closes the series in style, it’s one of Asher’s best book.
Line War brings the story to a conclusion, and while it ends the series as a whole I always had that niggle of a doubt – both on my initial read and on this re-read – that it might not be as spectacular as I hoped. After that came Brass Man ( review) and Polity Agent ( review), both of which upped the stakes and delivered some really great sci-fi. The first two books, Gridlinked ( review) and The Line of Polity ( review), were rather enjoyable, but they did have their issues. Finally I’ve come to the last Agent Cormac book, Line War, and up to now it’s been a ride of ups and downs.
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