Cowl

In the fourth millennium, the Heliothane Dominion rules triumphant in the solar system. But some of its enemies have escaped into the past, where they are still capable of wreaking havoc across time. By far worst of them is Cowl, an artificially forced advance in human evolution - more vicious than Amy prehistoric beast. Innocently embroiled in this galactic conflict and fleeing for her life, Polly finds herself dragged back through time, ear by ear... towards the very dawning of life on Earth. Meanwhile her relentless pursuer, Tack, discovers that the *tor* fragment imbedded in his wrist is of crucial value to the mysterious Heliothane - a truth that is soon brought home to him with bloody abruptness. As a twenty-second-century, vat-grown, programmable killer employed by U-gov, he is no stranger to violence, but his harrowing journey into the Heliothane's lethal universe is only just beginning... All while l, the tor east, Cowl's pet, is growing vast and dangerous and shedding its scales wherever its master orders. Scales that are themselves organic time machines designed for bringing human samples from all ages back to Cowl. Then the beast can feed...