Alex Benedict Books In Publication Order
- A Talent for War (1989)
- Polaris (2004)
- Seeker (2005)
- The Devil’s Eye (2008)
- Echo (2010)
- Firebird (2011)
- Coming Home (2014)
- Octavia Gone (2019)
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A Talent for War
Christopher Sim changed mankind’s history forever when he forged a rag tag group of misfits into the weapon that broke the alien Ashiyyur. But now, one man believes Sim was a fraud, and Alex must follow the legend into the heart of the alien galaxy to confront a truth far stranger than any fiction. Reissue.
Polaris
The luxury space yacht Polaris carried an elite group of the wealthy and curious thousands of light years from Earth to witness a spectacular stellar phenomenon. It never returned. The search party sent to investigate found the Polaris empty and adrift in space, the fate of its pilot and passengers a mystery. Sixty years later, prominent antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is determined to find the truth about Polaris no matter how far he must travel across the stars, no matter the risk.
Seeker
Thousands of years after an entire colony mysteriously disappears, antiquities dealer Alex Benedict comes into possession of a cup that seems to be from the Seeker, one of the colony’s ships. Investigating the provenance of the cup, Alex and his assistant Chase follow a deadly trail to the Seeker strangely adrift in a system barren of habitable worlds. But their discovery raises more questions than it answers, drawing Alex and Chase into the very heart of danger.
The Devil’s Eye
Nebula Award winner Jack McDevitt is the logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke Stephen King. Interstellar antiquities dealer Alex Benedict receives a cryptic message asking for help from celebrated writer Vicki Greene who has been mind wiped. She has no memory of her past life, or of her plea for assistance. But she has transferred an enormous sum of money to Alex, also without explanation. The answers to this mystery lie on the most remote of human worlds, where Alex will uncover a secret connected to a decades old political upheaval a secret that somebody desperately wants hidden, though the price of that silence is unimaginable
Echo
A new novel of the fantastic unknown by the national bestselling author of Time Travelers Never Die. Eccentric Sunset Tuttle spent his life searching in vain for forms of alien life. Thirty years after his death, a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic, indecipherable symbols is found in the possession of Tuttle’s onetime lover, and antiquities dealer Alex Benedict is anxious to discover what secret the tablet holds. It could be proof that Tuttle had found what he was looking for. To find out, Benedict and his assistant embark on their own voyage of discovery one that will lead them directly into the path of a very determined assassin who doesn’t want those secrets revealed.