A Talent for War
A Talent for War is a science fiction mystery novel by American writer Jack McDevitt , the story of a search by Alex Benedict , the protagonist , to discover the nature of a mysterious project Alex's uncle had been working on when the interstellar passenger ship , on which his uncle was a passenger , was lost in space . 
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