Brass Man may be the third novel in Neal Asher’s popular Agent Cormac series.

In the primitive world Cull, a knight errant known as Anderson hunts a dragon, not knowing that somewhere else is a resurrected brass killing machine, Mr Crane, assisting in an identical hunt. Learning that old foe still lives, agent Cormac pursues, while scientist Mika begins finding the horrifying truth about an ancient alien technology.

Each day can be a survival struggle for the people of Cull. Ferocious insectile monsters roam their globe, as they make an effort to escape to their forefathers’ starship still orbiting considerably above them. But an entity with doubtful motives, calling itself Dragon, helps them with genetic by-blows developed out of humans as well as the hideous local monsters. And now the supposedly geologically inactive globe itself is definitely increasingly suffering earthquakes .