In Neal Asher’s The Technician, the Theocracy continues to be dead for two decades, as well as the Polity guidelines on Masada – nonetheless it is an order that the rebels of the Tidy Squad cannot accept, as well as the iconic Jeremiah Tombs is best of their hitlist.

Tombs, meanwhile, provides escaped his sanatorium. His insanity should be cured, because the near-mythical hooder, known as ‘the Specialist’, that attacked him all those years ago, did something to his mind also the AIs neglect to understand. Tombs might possess information regarding the suicide of a whole alien competition. It’s up to the war drone Amistad to discover this information, with the help of an ex-rebel Commander, the black AI Cent Royal and the amphidapt Chanter.

In the mean time, in deep space, the mechanism the Atheter used to reduce themselves to animals stirs from slumber and begins to power-up its weapons .