Great North Road

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Pub Date: 2013-12-31 Pages: 944 Language: English Publisher: Random House Publishing Group NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLYNew York Times bestselling author Peter F. Hamilton & rsquo; s riveting new thriller combines the nail-biting suspense of a serial-killer investigation with clear-eyed scientific and social extrapolation to create a future that seems not merely plausible but inevitable. A century from now. thanks to a technology allowing instantaneous travel across light-years. humanity has solved its energy shortages .. cleaned up the environment. and created far-flung colony worlds The keys to this empire belong to the powerful North family & mdash;.. composed of successive generations of clones Yet these clones are not identical For one thing. genetic errors have crept in with . each generation For another. the original three clone & ldquo;...