# Matter

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- Book: [Matter](https://www.bookquiver.com/iain-m-banks/matter) ([Matter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/iain-m-banks/matter.md))
- Authors: [Iain M. Banks](https://www.bookquiver.com/iain-m-banks)
- Publisher: little_brown_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-14-0550-500-0
- Published: 2008-01-31
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Audiobook

## Description

In a world renowned even within a galaxy full of wonders, a crime within a war. For one brother it means a desperate flight, and a search for the one - maybe two - people who could clear his name. For his brother it means a life lived under constant threat of treachery and murder. And for their sister, even without knowing the full truth, it means returning to a place she'd thought abandoned forever. Only the sister is not what she once was; Djan Seriy Anaplian has changed almost beyond recognition to become an agent of the Culture's Special Circumstances section, charged with high-level interference in civilisations throughout the greater galaxy. Concealing her new identity - and her particular set of abilities - might be a dangerous strategy, however. In the world to which Anaplian returns, nothing is quite as it seems; and determining the appropriate level of interference in someone else's war is never a simple matter.