Bengal Station is located in the Indian Ocean and is “a marvel of twenty-second century design and technology, a foursquare, twenty level hive that was home to over thirty million citizens. It was the size of ten cities, or even a medium sized country, a military-industrial power in its own right and independent of Indian political influence and that of the China, Europe and the Federated Northern States of America.”This is home to the Bengal Station Novels. Cosmopath is set 4 years after Xenopa...

It was somewhat entertaining. Some vague references to Star Trek movies, rather weak resolutions and characters. The beginning was very good.

This wasn't a bad book, but the ending was a little weak. The previous two books in the series were basically mysteries set in the future. This one started the same way, but then ended up going somewhere different. I won't give any more details than that, but if you were expecting a standard mystery like the other two books you will be disappointed.

Pedestrian, predictable and completely unimaginative. I have read all three books in this series in the hope the story improved or developed. The phrase "deus ex machina" is appropriate to how each of these books are resolved.As a series I can only recommend the first book of the series as having any spark to it. I could go on about how poor this series is but just save yourself some time read Necropath and leave it at that.Overall fairly dreadful.

Disappointing simplistic plod in third book of Amrita Station. Didn't finish.

This is the third book in the Bengal Station series. It is set about 4 years after the 2nd book. Although I really liked it, it probably isn't as good as the third and the series is getting a bit tired. Although part of me would like to know what happens next, I think it is better to bring the series to a close on this note rather than ending on a bad note.

I thought this series was quite good. I highly recommend it!

This book was better than the first book by far. There was a lot of political stuff that I didn't like and the book could have done without. I liked that this book wasn't so much of a murder mystery but a true sci fi with aliens and space travel concepts. Another easy read, but one that I won't read again.

This is the final installment in Brown's Bengal Station series and it's a fine and fitting finale to what was, for me, one of the better "low-key" sci-fi series that I've read. I say low key because, as with much of Brown's other work, the story reads easily and is reminiscent of a fun pulp-style story from the sci-fi golden age. I mean this as a compliment, because there is a huge amount of enjoyment packed in there.Cosmopath continues the story of Jeff Vaughan who is a telepathic investigator

When I bought the novel, the premise seemed promising, yet already the blurb were full of praise which made me suspicious.Rare are the occassions when such commendments are justified.The first sentence wasn't overwhelming and not bad either.Soon the protagonist gets in trouble and the whole setting was well done.What turns me off is when characters are one dimensional, predictable and bland.Almost immediately the author gets melodramatic and delves right into one cliché after another.This moves

A thrilling finale to this engaging trilogy.

The "Final" book in the Bengal Station Novels did not dissapoint me. I do not want to give away too many things to not spoil to those ones who are or want to read but I would say that If you have not read the first 2 novels, you would still enjoyed COSMOPATH but all things would seem a bit all over the place in regards to Vaughan past and to what I read somewhere in a review of the previous novel, vaguely sketched secondary characters.The Bengal Station novels isn't so much about a big mistery a...

2.7/5.Trashy mix of popular themes:prostitutes, assassins, telepaths, bad aliens, good aliens,bad "Chinks", and Really Truly Absolutely Loving Husband!

When I began this book it was at a solid 3 stars. It wasn’t incredible or gripping, but the story was somewhat well developed and it was easy to read. However as I continued, it got to be more of a slog. The middle portion was by far the hardest part to get through and the only reason I kept going, was because I was determined to see if the book could redeem itself. By the end I was severely disappointed. Eric Brown had turned the last six uninteresting chapters into racist shenanigans. That was...

Review from my blog cybermage.seThe alien empath assassin tracking Jeff where thrown off when Sakura called and told that their daughter had leukemia. The emotions saved his life. Private investigator Jeff Vaughan was not having a good day.This is the third, and final long awaited book in the Bengali Station Trilogy. My wait has been longer than most, the postal service in Europe took the long way from UK to me. Anyway…Jeff was the fourth telepath assassination target and only survivor in a rece...

"Cosmopath" being the third book in the series of Bengal Station books by Eric Brown and also the last in this series the story takes place four years later than the previous book.In the distant future, the human race has been steadily pushing into new territories, new planets, into an growing sphere called the "Expansion". At the edge of this expansion, a ship has gone missing and Vaughn is hired by a space liner and void-ship tycoon to accompany the search party.Vaughn's role in the mission is...

Another well done book that mixes a nice detective story with the wonder of old sci/fi. Brown does not hesitate to slow his story down to build up the mystery, but also has flashes of rough violence to raise the danger and underline what is at stake. Though he does delve into alien species a bit, which I'm not a fan of, he does so in ways that it fits well with the story and does not over do it.

4.5 Stars Cosmopath by Eric Brown is a very good science fiction novel and book three in a series. The whole Bengal Station series is tailor made for me and my likes. It is a science fiction series that is heavy in both science fiction and hard boiled detective novel mashed into one. The science fiction is of the light nature as there is very little technical data discussed or utilized. Cosmopath is well written and fast paced. The book takes place in the future when Earth has expanded to the st...

Cosmopath is the last book in the Bengal Station trilogy, preceded by Necropath and Xenopath. I really enjoyed these books about psychic private detective Jeff Vaughan set in the expanse of the Bengal Station, and with Xenopath delivering a stronger story and a more widescreen view at the galaxy I had very high hopes for Cosmopath - hopes that were exceeded with ease!Moving on a few years from the events of Xenopath, Jeff and Sakura are now settled with a family of their own. Life is good for th...

I found this book to be much slower than the previous books in the trilogy. I think it suffered from the lack of a strong antagonist character. By the time any antagonists were revealed they were dead.