Alternative Reality Thriller 07

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Paul McAuley Cowboy Angels Pbk published September 2007 by Gollancz at Ł12.99 ISBN: 0575079355

The first Turing gate, no bigger than a fleck of dust, is forced open in 1963, at the high-energy physics laboratory in Brookhaven; three years later, the first man to enter an alternate history is sent through a much larger version, and an empire is born.

For fifteen years, the version of America that calls itself the Real has used Turing gates to infiltrate a wide variety of alternate Americas, rebuilding those wrecked by nuclear war, and fomenting revolutions to free others from Communist or Fascist rule, establishing a Pan-American Alliance. Then a nation exhausted by endless strife elects Jimmy Carter on a reconstruction and reconciliation ticket, and the Real begins to wage peace instead of war.
But some people believe that it is the Real’s manifest destiny to impose its idea of truth, justice and the American way in every known alternate history, and they’re prepared to do anything to reverse Carter’s peacenik doctrine. Adam Stone, one of the CIG’s covert field agents, or Cowboy Angels, volunteers for reactivation after an old friend begins a killing spree across alternate histories. His mission uncovers a startling secret about the operation of the Turing gates, and leads him into the heart of an audacious conspiracy to change the history of every America in the multiverse - including our own.
Cowboy Angels is a vivid, helter-skelter thriller in which one version of America discovers the true cost of empire-building, and one man discovers that an individual really can make a difference.
‘McAuley has Len Deighton’s gift for smuggling useful knowledge into a gripping tale’ New Scientist
`One of our most versatile and talented writers’ Publishers Weekly
About The Author
With his debut novel, Four Hundred Billion Stars, Paul J. McAuley became the first British author to win the prestigious Philip K. Dick Memorial Award. His fifth novel won the Arthur C Clarke and the John W Campbell Awards.
Born in Gloucestershire in 1955, he has a doctorate in botany and has worked as a research scientist in California and the United Kingdom. He is a frequent contributor to American science fiction magazines as well as the British magazine Interzone. He lives in North London. Thousands of New and used Books at your Fingertips...
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