دراکن (دراکا، #۴)

NOW IT'S OUR TURN...THE COP: Detective-Lieutenant Henry Carmaggio had seen plenty of blood, both in Cambodia, and in twenty years of police work. He'd never seen anything like the Warehouse Massacre.That was just the beginning. Something was loose in his city, something inhuman that walked among us, killing with the easy precision of a leopard in a flock of sheep. There was no one else to track it down. And if he didn't it would kill and kill again -- until the whole world was its hunting ground.THE DRAKA: Gwendolyn Ingolfsson had been too close to the molehole experiment when it went wrong and hurled her into a parallel Earth filled with billions of antique humans. As a member of the Draka Master Race, genetically engineered to dominate unmodified humans, her duty was clear: call home. Build a molehole device in this universe and establish a bridgehead for the Race to come through. It had been a while since the Draka had an opportunity for conquest. Bring through a couple of orbital battle stations and the locals would be ... what was that expression she'd read? ah, yes.Toast.

Detective Lt. Henry Carmaggio has seen plenty of blood in his 20 years of police work in New York. He'd never seen anything like the Warehouse Massacre. Gwendolyn had been too close to the molehole experiment when it went wrong and hurled her into a parallel Earth. Now, as a member of the Draka Master Race her duty is clear--come back and conquer all.

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It is four centuries after the ending of Stirling's previous novel of the Draka Domination, The Stone Dogs (1990). An accident with an experimental stardrive flings a genetically tailored Draka warrior, Gwendolyn Ingolfsson, across universes and time into contemporary New York City. Kenneth Lafarge, a secret agent for those who fled the Draka, comes to Earth in pursuit of her. Caught in the cross fire are New York cop Henry Carmaggio and his lover, investment counselor Jennifer Feinbaum. The Draka's plan is, very simply, to open an interdimensional gate and bring in a Draka army to conquer Earth. Defeating this cheerfully bloodthirsty scheme involves nonstop action and Stirling's usual wealth of technical detail, wry wit, and superlatively drawn female characters, not the least of them the appalling Ms. Ingolfsson.

When an experiment goes wrong, Gwendolen Ingolfsson is hurled into a parallel Earth filled with billions of unaltered, antique humans. Her duty is to pave the way for an invasion force, to increase the power of the genetically-engineered Draka. Shocked by the bloody rampage of a killer responsible for the Warehouse Massacre, Detective Lieutenant Henry Carmaggio teams up with Gwendolyn Ingofsson to solve the crime Detective-Lieutenant Henry Carmaggio is investigating something inhuman which is killing with the easy precision of a leopard in a flock of sheep, and Gwendolyn Infolfsson, hurled into a parallel Earth, is trying to call home Shocked by the bloody rampage of a killer responsible for the Warehouse Massacre, Detective Lieutenant Henry Carmaggio teams up with Gwendolyn Ingofsson, who has been accidently transported from a high-tech parallel Earth. From a parallel Earth comes a figure of terror: one member of the Draka, the Master Race, marooned among us and determined to lay the foundation for the future conquest of humanity...