Oracle - Oracle, Bk 2 Author:Mike Resnick Penelope Bailey has been gone -- missing, hidden, dead? -- for ten years, when suddenly her greatest antagonist, the only man to survive her fury, is commissioned to find her. — Thus begins an adventure that will involve the master assassin known as the Whistler, and the drug-ravaged Jimmy Two Feathers, and the Jade Queen, and a race known as the... more » Blue Devils -- and finally, inevitably, the Iceman himself.
And as various men and women read the clues and make their way toward Penelope Bailey, the young woman who can see and alter the future, they must constantly ask themselves: are they acting, and succeeding, on their own -- or they being manipulated by the greatest manipulator of all? Are they free agents, or are they merely pawns in some unknown master plan conceived by the woman who is now revered as the Oracle?« less