Polity Agent may be the fourth novel in Neal Asher’s popular Agent Cormac series.

From 800 years in the foreseeable future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity. Those coming through it have already been tasked with acquiring the alien ‘Manufacturer’ back again to its house civilization in the tiny Magellanic cloud. Once these refugees are securely through, the gate itself is rapidly turn off – because something alien is normally pursuing them.

From those that complete, agent Cormac learns that the Manufacturer civilization has been damaged by pernicious computer virus referred to as the Jain technology. This boosts queries: why was Dragon, an enormous bioconstruct of the Manufacturers, really delivered to the Polity; why did a Jain node abruptly result in the hands of a person who could do the most damage with it? On the other hand an entity known as the Legate is normally distributing poisonous Jain nodes . and a renegade strike ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something extremely nasty beyond your Polity itself . . .