Part one in the Nights Dawn Trilogy.
A huge space opera that is based between a war of the living and the dead.
Expect plots within plots, a vast amount of characters as well as sex and violence.
Ok to push this book a little more I’m going to put in the authors description taken from his web site.
A nightmare with no end …
In AD2600 the human race is finally beginning to realise its full potential. Hundreds of colonised planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature’s boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures. Huge fleets of sentient trader starships thrive on the wealth created by the industrialisation of entire star systems. And thoughout inhabited space the Confederation Navy keeps the peace. A true golden age is within our grasp.
But now something has gone catastrophically wrong. On a primitive coloney planet a renegade criminal’s chance encounter with an utterly alien entity unleashes the most primal of all our fears. An extinct race which inhabited the galaxy aeons ago called it ‘The Reality Dysfunction’. It is the nightmare which has prowled beside us since the beginning of history.
http://www.peterfhamilton.co.uk/index.php?page=The_Reality_Dysfunction