Another Book Recommendation

Since my birthday resulted in a veritable rain of books gifted by The Husband ::happy dance:: I am reading a LOT of fiction lately. All the books I got were hitherto unknown to me, and of the science-fiction genre; so far I enjoyed most of them.
The one I finished last week was The Skinner by Neal Asher. You know, this new generation of British sci-fi writers is truly gifted. This one is touted on the cover as: 'Dune meets Master and Commander' and it actually meets that description pretty good. Without giving out much of the storyline: imagine a planet, mostly covered by oceans where every living organism is literally the food of others, and besides that, a bite of some of these critters can grant immortality to humans. As if, you do not die. You suffer, you get hurt, mutilated, eviscerated alive, skinned, thrown to vicious sea creatures as food...but you do not die. Hence the natives of this planet has a peculiar social structure, some really weird social customs, and some really dark secrets. Throw in a long-ago alien invasion, an undead cop not willing to die until he finishes his last assignment, a relatively young immortal woman who is looking for the meaning of her immortality, a bunch of 700+ year old sea captains and a hive mind of Earth's wasps with its own agenda... I think we all could enjoy this one despite some of the really violent parts, which, I must warn you, are NOT very nice. However, at the end, the adventure eventually comes to a very satisfying ending.
I hear there is an actual prequel to this, where the world of the planet Spatterjay is first introduced; I shall eventually take a look at that one too.