Matter

About “Matter”

A 2008 novel by Iain Banks. Within a crime tied to a war, one brother must flee and search for those who could clear his name, while another brother lives under constant threat of treachery and murder. Their sister, Djan Seriy Anaplian, an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section charged with high-level interference in civilisations, returns to a world where nothing is as it seems, and where determining the right level of interference in someone else's war is never simple.