Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross dives deep into the underbelly of paratime espionage, nuclear warfare, and state surveillance in this provocative techno-thriller set in The Merchant Princes multi-verse
Dark Stateups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thrillerEmpire Games,the start to Stross' new story-line, and perfect entry point for new readers, in The Merchant Princes series.
In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson's timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player. Meanwhile, a sleeper cell activated in Rita's, the Commissioner's adopted daughter and newly-minted spy, timeline threatens to unravel everything.
With a penchant for intricate world-building and an uncanny ability to realize alternate history and technological speculation, Stross' writing will captivate any reader who's a fan hi-tech thrillers, inter-dimensional political intrigue, and espionage.
A Novel of the Merchant Princes Multiverse (Empire Games, Book II)
Hardback
Publication Date: 09/01/2018
- ISBN:
- 9780765337573
- 9780765337573
- Category:
- Espionage & spy thriller
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 09-01-2018
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Tom\Doherty#Associates, LLC
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 244.09x162.81x33.78mm
- Weight:
- 0.51kg
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