Coming Home, Jack McDevitt
Coming Home, Jack McDevitt
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Coming Home

Author: Jack McDevitt

Narrator: Jennifer Van Dyck

Unabridged: 11 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/04/2014

Synopsis

Thousands of years ago, artifacts of the early space age were lost to rising oceans and widespread turmoil. Garnett Baylee devoted his life to finding them, only to give up hope. Then, in the wake of his death, one was found in his home, raising tantalizing questions. Had he succeeded after all? Why had he kept it a secret? And where is the rest of the Apollo cache? Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict and his pilot, Chase Kolpath, have gone to Earth to learn the truth. But the trail seems to have gone cold, so they head back home to be present when the Capella, the interstellar transport that vanished eleven years earlier in a time/space warp, is expected to reappear. With a window of only a few hours, rescuing it is of the utmost importance. Twenty-six hundred passengers-including Alex's uncle, Gabriel Benedict, the man who raised him-are on board. Alex now finds his attention divided between finding the artifacts and anticipating the rescue of the Capella. But time won't allow him to do both. As the deadline for the Capella's reappearance draws near, Alex fears that the puzzle of the artifacts will be lost yet again. But Alex Benedict never forgets and never gives up-and another day will soon come around...

About Jack McDevitt

Jack McDevitt, a former naval officer, taxi driver, English teacher, customs officer, and motivational trainer, is now a full-time writer. His many books include The Devil's Eye, Moonfall, Cauldron, and Seeker, which won a Nebula Award, and he is also the author of numerous prizewinning short stories.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 09, 2017

This series continues to be a solid and consistent read. There are several plotlines going on simultaneously, with one picking up on the spaceship rescues from those outside of time, including relationship angst for Chase, and also the delightful return to Sol. Of course, a return to the Earth and ou......more

Goodreads review by Megan on February 21, 2017

I have never read a Clive Cussler book. It's just not my normal sort of fiction, although I have nothing in particular against it. Reading Jack McDevitt's Coming Home, though, I kept thinking that this book was an awful lot like what I would expect a Clive Cussler book to be, just set in the future,......more

Goodreads review by Walt on February 13, 2015

I've said many times (often, in reviews on Goodreads.com) that a day with a bad McDevitt novel beats a day with no McDevitt novel whatsoever. The last two or three Alex Benedict novels haven't been bad, exactly, but they have struck me as increasingly repetitive. COMING HOME follows closely on the h......more

Goodreads review by Metaphorosis on February 26, 2015

reviews.metaphorosis.com 2.5 stars Antiquarians Chase Kolpath and Alex Benedict search out lost space-age artifacts and participate in an attempted rescue of a spaceliner trapped in a spacetime warp. In reviewing the prequel to this book, I said I feared the series was growing tired. Coming Home is u......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on October 21, 2018

I'm coming home, I'm coming home, tell the world I'm coming home... (Sorry; couldn't resist referencing that song.) Seriously, I enjoyed this one.......more

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