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Echo by Jack McDevitt

Echo

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Jack McDevitt

Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · October 25, 2011

Sunset Tuttle spent a lifetime looking for alien species.

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Who it’s for
An alien-hunting legacy turns a puzzling inscription into a mystery about what should stay hidden.
Genres
Space Opera, Alien Contact, Sci-Fi Crime
Published
Penguin Publishing Group, October 25, 2011

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About this book

Sunset Tuttle spent a lifetime looking for alien species. Twenty-five years after Tuttle's death, Alex Benedict discovers a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic symbols, now in the possession of Tuttle's one- time lover Rachel Bannister. Benedict is determined to decipher its secret-one Bannister doesn't want revealed. Could it be that Tuttle's obsessive quest was successful?

Secrets in the Stars

An alien-hunting legacy turns a puzzling inscription into a mystery about what should stay hidden.

Come here for

  • A cryptic tablet, a vanished researcher, and the question of alien contact
  • A mystery where discovery and secrecy pull in opposite directions

Expect

  • A sustained chase to decipher symbols and reconsider a lifelong quest
  • Science-fiction mystery with the stakes rooted in discovery and disclosure

Where it sits

Space Opera51%
Alien Contact39%
Sci-Fi Crime39%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Paranormal Fantasy
  • Mystery
  • Sci-Fi Adventure
Authors
Jack McDevitt
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
October 25, 2011
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Paranormal Fantasy