[I’m posting this now, but read the book 9/2007].

Seeker (2005) is the third book in a series with the character Alex Benedict (following A Talent for War and Polaris). The main characters are the antiquities dealer Alex and his (female) assistant, Chase Kolpath. The Alex character reminds me of the Jonathan Gash character Lovejoy, and this book can be thought of as “Lovejoy in space”. This is a page-turner of an adventure story, with Alex and Chase trying to find the “lost colony” of Margolus. The story is set about 13,000 years in the future. Alex and Chase are shown a cup which they determine is 9,000 years old, and they believe it is from the interstellar ship, Seeker. Seeker was one of two ships that carried the original colonists 9,000 years before.

Alex and Chase go on a hunt for the colony, and unknown people try to stop them…

Novel is told in the first person, from Chase’s point of view. Chase is actually the primary character. This is a fun read; I have Polaris on my queue.