Orbus by Neal Asher H/B D/J 1st Edn Tor 2009 Polity Spatterjay

Orbus by Neal Asher. Hardback first edition, first printing published by Tor in 2009. Complete with unclipped dust jacket. \n\nIn charge of an old cargo spaceship, the Old Captain Orbus flees a violent and sadistic past, but he doesn\u2019t know that the lethal war drone, Sniper, is a stowaway, and that the past is rapidly catching up with him.\nHis old enemy the Prador Vrell, mutated by the Spatterjay virus into something powerful and dangerous, has seized control of a Prador dreadnought, murdering its crew, and is now seeking to exact vengeance on those who tried to have him killed.\nTheir courses inexorably converge in the Graveyard, the border realm lying between the Polity and the Prador Kingdom, a place filled with the ruins left by past genocides and interplanetary war. But this is the home of the Golgoloth, monster to a race of monsters, the place where a centuries-long cold war is being fought.\nMeanwhile, the terrifying Prador King is coming, prepared to do anything to ensu.