![]() ![]() 'I enjoyed the hell out of this and am eating up the rest of the series without hesitation' - Goodreads reviewer, this monolith of story, this dire-light, this cutting of an epic gordian knot has got to be one of the classics of literature'- Goodreads reviewer, 'I am very surprised and delighted by this novel. Readers have been gripped by THE QUANTUM THIEF: She offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self - in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed. Jean's routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. Now he is condemned to play endless variations of a game-theoretic riddle in the vast virtual jail of the Axelrod Archons - the Dilemma Prison - against countless copies of himself. ![]() ![]() His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars.Įxcept that Jean made one mistake. Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. To prove his innocence, he needs to pull off a heist even he thought was impossible. The solar system's greatest thief is wanted for murder. ![]()
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