Pretty good - I would expect a sequel if it hadn't been written so long ago. ( )

"'What have you done to me?' Kendrick screamed. 'What's this stuff getting inside my skin?'
"'That stuff is me,' Peter replied."

Hiding out in Edinburgh, Kendrick Gallmon is undergoing black-market medical procedures to try to keep the half-understood nanotech in his body from killing him. He can't trust anybody, except maybe the dead man who's started talking to him. And somebody has started trying to murder him.

This science fiction thriller is a solid, if never outstanding, work. Its greatest strength is the extended flashbacks to Kendrick's time as a political prisoner, when a military branch of a deranged American theocracy conducts experiments on people to master nanotech enhancements. The horror of this period is gripping. But the struggle of the survivors to come to terms with this never rings quite true, and nor do some of the details of the world itself.

If you're looking for a dark, gritty, fast-paced techno-thriller, this should suit you pretty well. Just don't look for anything deeper than that, 'cause it isn't really here. ( )

I loved Gary Gibson's first book "Angel Stations", and this is just as good. The story deals with some interesting issues, is well told, and it's impossible not to get drawn into the fast paced story as it unfolds.
Excellent! ( )