Use of Weapons

The third Culture novel from the awesome imagination of Iain M. The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action. The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought. The drone known as SkaffenAmtiskaw knew both of these people.

It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner. But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past. Epic in scope, ambitious in its ideas and absorbing in its execution' Independent on Sunday. Banks has created one of the most enduring and endearing visions of the future' Guardian.