Isolate, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Isolate, L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
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Isolate
A Novel in the Grand Illusion

Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

Narrator: Michael Bower

Unabridged: 25 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/16/2021

Synopsis

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, has a brand new gaslamp political fantasy Isolate.

Industrialization. Social unrest. Underground movements. Government corruption and surveillance.

Something is about to give.

Steffan Dekkard is an isolate, one of the small percentage of people who are immune to the projections of empaths. As an isolate, he has been trained as a security specialist and he and his security partner Avraal Ysella, a highly trained empath are employed by Axel Obreduur, a senior Craft Minister and the de facto political strategist of his party.

When a respected Landor Councilor dies of “heart failure” at a social event, because of his political friendship with Obreduur, Dekkard and Ysella find that not only is their employer a target, but so are they, in a covert and deadly struggle for control of the government and economy.

Steffan is about to understand that everything he believed is an illusion.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

About L. E. Modesitt, Jr.

L. E. Modesitt, Jr., is the bestselling author of the fantasy series The Saga of Recluce, Corean Chronicles, and the Imager Portfolio. His science fiction includes Adiamante, the Ecolitan novels, the Forever Hero Trilogy, and Archform: Beauty. Besides a writer, Modesitt has been a U.S. Navy pilot, a director of research for a political campaign, legislative assistant and staff director for a U.S. Congressman, Director of Legislation and Congressional Relations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a consultant on environmental, regulatory, and communications issues, and a college lecturer. He lives in Cedar City, Utah.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick

The blurb totally hooked me and I was intrigued by the Victorian setting. Problem is, I don't think there was enough material to warrant a full novel here. Isolate features a political tale and a love story, both of which struggling to get out. Unfortunately, the bulk of the book focuses on the excru......more

Goodreads review by Liviu

An excellent book that grows on you; will add more detail after re-reading it; in short though this is the novel that would continue the politics of Rhenn's saga in a somewhat different context and with a protagonist with considerably less fantasy-power Isolate takes place in a universe based on coal......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Started off slow as Modesitt built a whole new world, but it came together fairly quickly. Full of politics & economics, both subjects that he excels at. He poses interesting issues that often parallel ours in some ways, but are just different enough that there's no way he's making this into a parti......more

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥

Someday in the future I'll look back on this day and say "I finished Isolate by L. E. Modesitt Jr. and it only took me a year and five months!!!!" I swear I wasn't actually reading that whole time, more like I started it back in 2022, then put it on hold until the very end of 2023 and finally picked......more

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Praise for Isolate

“Delicious with intrigue and artful revelations, Modesitt’s Isolate comes at you with top-drawer worldbuilding and compelling characters. Here we have a hot new gaslamp world fraught with political machinations that will keep you up reading into the night. Modesitt has always been great, so how does he keep getting better? Read Isolate and find out.” —Peter Orullian, author of The Unremembered

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