Jan 02, 2010 14:00
The beginning of a nice little SF mystery series, Night Train to Rigel starts us off with a stranger dying right into ex-spy Frank Compton's arms. Pretty soon Frank is off on an interstellar adventure searching for a force capable -- and apparently set on -- destroying the Quadrail, an FTL train system operated by "Spiders". But who really controls the spiders? And who's that chick who keeps following him?
I enjoyed this a lot. Zahn is good at inventing aliens with their own tics and languages and he follows mystery conventions faithfully too. Like any series it starts to drag a bit later on, but this first book in the series does a great job setting it all in motion.
book review,
30 in 2010