Echo

An Alex Benedict Novel
by Jack McDevitt

In a universe thought to contain only one other form of alien life, scientist Sunset Tuttle spent his life looking for others. Thirty years after Tuttle died in scientific obscurity, a stone tablet covered in strange engravings is found in his old house. Before Alex Benedict and his assistant can acquire it, however, Tuttle’s former lover claims it and refuses to allow anyone else to see it. Benedict’s intrigue leads him to the planetary system of Echo, the last place visited by Tuttle, where he searches to find if the scientist had discovered another civilization.