Dark Agent

In "Dark Agent," the second book of Neal Asher's Time's Shadow trilogy, Captain Blite and Agent Cormac face the relentless threat of the malevolent AI Straeger, who seeks to ignite a galaxy-wide war with his twisted p-prador army. As they navigate the chaos on the war-torn planet of Yossander's Hold, they must secure vital resources to repair Blite's ship while contending with betrayal and violence. Meanwhile, an uneasy alliance forms between the Prador Kingdom and the human Polity’s AI in response to Straeger’s ominous plans, leaving the galaxy teetering on the edge of destruction.