Dan Simmons - Endymion / Rise of Endymion - Rhadamanth Nemes and Shrike

Technocore cyborg Rhadamanth Nemes beginning to phase shift.

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Rhadamanth_Nemes

Rhadamanth is so essential to the story as a bogey woman, as the Shrike allegiance becomes ambiguous Rhadamanth becomes the character to fear.

Phase shift violence.

Nemes blasted from orbit.

A Shrike, waiting.

http://hyperioncantos.wikia.com/wiki/Shrike