Dark Intelligence may be the first novel in the Transformation series, a no-holds-barred adventure set in Neal Asher’s popular Polity universe.

One man will transcend loss of life to seek vengeance. One girl will transform herself to gain power. And no one will emerge unscathed .

Thorvald Spear wakes in medical center, where he finds he’s been brought back from the dead. Also, he died in a human vs. alien battle which ended a whole century ago. However when he relives his distressing final occasions, he discovers about Dark Intelligence: Change: Book One the spark to continue living. That spark is usually vengeance. Trapped and desperate on a global surrounded by alien Prador pushes, Spear had seen a rescue dispatch arriving. But rather than providing backup, Cent Royal, the AI inside the destroyer turned rogue. It annihilated friendly pushes in a frenzy of damage, and, years later, it’s still free. Spear vows to monitor it across worlds and perform whatever needs doing to take it down.

Isobel Satomi ran an effective crime syndicate. But after competitors attacked, she required more power. Yet she got more than she bargained for when she negotiated with Cent Royal. She paid it to carefully turn her part-AI herself, but the upgrades hid a horrifying magic formula. The Dark AI acquired triggered a transformation in Isobel that would turn her right into a monster, rapidly changing into something far from human.

Spear hires Isobel to consider him towards the Cent Royal AI’s last known whereabouts. But he cheats her in the process and he becomes a target for her vengeance. And as she is evolves further into a monstrous predator, trend soon wins over cause. Will Spear finish his hunt, before he turns into the hunted?