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The Traders' War: The Clan Corporate / The Merchants' War (Merchant Princes, Bks 3-4)
The Traders' War The Clan Corporate / The Merchants' War - Merchant Princes, Bks 3-4 Author:Charles Stross In The Merchant Princes series, some humans have an ability to travel between parallel Earths, which have differing levels of technology. — The Clan Corporate (Merchant Princes, Bk 3) — Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she disc... more »overed (in The Family Trade) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, starting with the fact that women are family property and required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds, Miriam has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. She started a profitable business in a third world she has discovered, outside the family reach (recounted in The Hidden Family). She fell in love with a distant relative, but he died saving her life. Now, however, in The Clan Corporate, Miriam may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is, for instance, the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they'd never make her do that, would they?
The Merchants' War (Merchant Princes, Bk 4)
Miriam Beckstein, a young, hip, business journalist from Boston. discovered (in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family) that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap (in The Clan Corporate) and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose. Now, in The Merchants' War, Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not; something that she's really going to hate -- if she lives long enough to find out.« less
ISBN-13: 9781447237624 ISBN-10: 1447237625 Publication Date: 5/9/2013 Pages:611 Edition:Bind up ed Rating: