Odd Girl Out (Frank Compton Series #3) » (Reprint)

Timothy Zahn is the Hugo Award-winning author of more than thirty SF novels, including the Dragonback series, as well as Night Train to Rigel, The Third Lynx, Blackcollar: The Judas Solution and the Dragonback sextet. He has also written the all-time bestselling Star Wars™ spinoff novel, Heir to the Empire, and other Star Wars™ novels, including the recent Allegiance. He lives in coastal Oregon.

In this thrilling, fast paced sequel to Night Train to Rigel and The Third Lynx, former government agent Frank Compton must ride the interstellar Quadrail in search of a missing girl if he wants to clear himself of her sister's brutal murder. But can he find her before the tyranical Modhri gets to her first?

Publishers Weekly

Mysterious deaths, encounters with oddly named aliens, chases and shootouts form a skeleton of a story that never quite gets fleshed out in Zahn's weak third Frank Compton adventure. Former spy and planet-hopping PI Compton, worn out by the events of 2007's The Third Lynx, gets home to find a woman in his apartment. She needs help rescuing her little sister, Rebekah, from the group mind that Compton just got back from battling. After he turns her down in classic cynical-hero fashion, she's promptly killed. Compton, framed for the crime, acquires a new identity and heads off to find Rebekah with the assistance of "ex-Marine ex-bounty hunter" Bruce McMicking. The usual sort of mayhem leads to Rebekah's rescue, the discovery of her secret and a classic confrontation/explanation scene with the mastermind, who asks, "How did you learn this?" Clumsy back-references and a blatant setup for the next book will thoroughly discourage new readers. (Sept.)

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