The Voyage of the Sable Keech is a 2006 science fiction novel by Neal Asher. It is the second novel in the Spatterjay sequence. The story takes place on the planet of Spatterjay, a world where the oceans are teeming with dangerous creatures and the humans who live there are infected with a virus that grants them immortality. The protagonist, Taylor Bloc, is a walking dead man who wants to live again and will do anything to get adulation, power and control. An ancient hive mind has sent an agent to this uncertain world. Source: Wikipedia (en)