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Dark Diamond

A Time's Shadow, Book 1

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Dark Diamond

By: Neal Asher
Narrated by: Peter Noble
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Doomed to die. And die again.

Dark Diamond is the first in a high-octane space opera trilogy from Neal Asher, creator of the Polity universe.

Captain Blite knows that someone, or something, is trying to kill him. But a device he possesses, known only as the dark diamond, won't let that happen. After surviving a series of catastrophic accidents and assassination attempts, Blite realizes that whenever he dies the dark diamond reverses time to a moment before his death. He must go through the traumatic experience again and again until he escapes.

Every encounter Blite survives generates a time flash which reveals potential futures. This extraordinary phenomenon attracts the attention of Polity agents and the crab-like p-Prador who wish to acquire this power for themselves. Hunted across space and time, Blite must uncover the true nature of the dark diamond before it causes his destruction . . .

Praise for Neal Asher

'Neal Asher's books are like an adrenaline shot targeted directly at the brain' – John Scalzi, author of Old Man's War

'Non-stop action and unimaginable stakes' – Yoon Ha Lee on The Soldier

'Imaginative, energetic and insane' – SFX on Brass Man

©2025 Neal Asher (P)2025 Macmillan Australia Audio
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Great story with a good number of the interesting characters we're familiar with. Shame the afterword is sensational, promotial, deluded and nothing to do with the book, series or insites there of, but of the author's personal politics.

Great story, shame re afterword

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