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No one can outrun the past in Brass Man, is the third novel in Neal Asher's popular Agent Cormac series.

Imperfectly resurrected by Jain technology, Mr Crane is back from the dead. The brass killing machine is haunted by a violent past he can’t fully forget or truly remember. He seeks to heal his shattered mind as his new master, an old biophysicist enemy of Agent Cormac, sets him on an improbable mission: to hunt a dragon on the frontier world of Cull.

On Cull, each day is a struggle for survival. Ferocious insectile monsters roam the volatile planet. And the low-tech human settlers are desperate to reach their ancestors’ starship – orbiting tantalisingly out of reach. An entity calling itself Dragon assists them, but what are its real motives, and why is the biophysicist really here? Cormac must find the answers, and face multiple threats to the Polity.

Brass Man is followed by Polity Agent, the fourth book in the Agent Cormac series.

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Critic Reviews

Imaginative, energetic and insane.
Trademark Asher . . . the links it establishes leave one wanting much, much more.
Compelling reading . . . Asher has become a resounding and distinctive voice in British SF.
All stars
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I absolutely loved this story. I loved Mr Crane when he first appeared I always love when he appears in any of the stories. I really want another stories focused around him. I felt inexplicably happy when Mr Crane got his mind back. Mr Asher makes you feel things about character that you've known for a short amount of time. I felt sad when Occum and his Tomolon died even though we only knew him for a short amount of time. This is my second listen through of the book. I want to get the physical book at some point. I will definitely be coming back to this book in the future. Its always going to a favourite.

I Absolutely Love This

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Ric Jerrom's voices for villains are perhaps a little too sawing and arch, and I was surprised with his choices for the accents of Cull.

It's not a bad thing, per se, but it becomes mildly bewildering when the voice you've imagined for certain characters is replaced with what sounds like a faintly West Germanic accent by way of the British Isles and the Evil Genius' laboratory.

Brass Man is one of my favourite Polity novels, and I will happily admit that I enjoyed this audiobook, in spite of myself.

Almost perfect.

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great series of books. Highly enjoyable. I find myself suffering from a little bit of nostalgia when I Immerse myself in the storyline depicted in this wonderful series. A time I would rather be born in

another great read by Neal Asher

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Villain a little too maniacal, double so in way he was voiced. Unlike when the book was written in 2023 AI (ChatGPT ) is now delivering ; it is possible to imagine what if AGI does a better job of managing us humans than our current overlords ( politicians) so book is very current today .

Nice story line but probably a better book to read than listen

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