{"product_id":"jack-four-by-neal-asher-9781529049992","title":"Jack Four","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis high-octane adventure is set in the same world as Neal Asher's acclaimed Polity universe. It's a thrilling, fast-paced standalone novel, perfect for fans of Alastair Reynolds and Stephen Baxter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCreated to die - determined to live...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJack Four\u003c\/em\u003e - one of twenty human clones - has been created to be sold. His purchasers are the alien prador, and they only want him for their experimentation programme. But there is something different about Jack.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe prador's king has been mutated by the Spatterjay virus into a monstrous creature, along with his children. They were infected by the virus during the last humans-versus-prador war, now lapsed into an uneasy truce. But the prador are always looking for new weapons - and their experimentation programme might give them the edge they seek.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSuzeal trades human slaves out of the Stratogaster Space Station. She thinks the rewards are worth the risks, but all that is about to change. The Station was once a zoo, containing monsters from across known space. All the monsters now dwell on the planet below, but they aren't as contained as they seem. And a vengeful clone may be the worst danger of all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly for the brain' \u003c\/em\u003e John Scalzi, author of the Old Man's War series\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Magnificently awesome. Then Asher turns it up to eleven' \u003c\/em\u003e Peter F. Hamilton, author of Salvation and others, on Asher's The Soldier\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46419422249196,"sku":"9781529049992","price":23.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10921643482732.jpg?v=1746525183","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/jack-four-by-neal-asher-9781529049992","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}