The Merchants' War

Book Four of the Merchant Princes

Merchant Princes (Volume 4 of 6)

Charles Stross

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Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip business journalist in Boston. But her very well-connected family comes from an alternate reality, where they are a little too much like the mafia for comfort. Having escaped to yet anther world, Miriam remains in hiding from both her Clan and their opponents. With a nasty shooting war going on in Gruinmarkt, the world of the Clan, Miriam is shielded from danger, but also from information.  And there’s a secret yet for Miriam to discover; something that she's really going to hate--if she lives long enough to find out.

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Chapter One

After the wedding party

The wreckage still smoldered in the wan dawn light, sending a column of grayish- white smoke spiraling into the misty sky above Niejwein. Two mounted men surveyed it from a vantage point be

side the palace gate house.

"What a mess."

"Unavoidable, I think. The best laid plans . . . have they found his majesty yet, your grace?"

The first speaker shrugged. His horse shuffled, blowing out noisily: the smell of smoke, or possibly the bodies, was making it nervous.

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“For sheer inventiveness and energy, this cliffhanger-riddled serial remains difficult to top.”
--Publishers Weekly

“The world-building in this series is simply superb, in other words—it is engaging, crystal-clear and disturbingly real….. The Merchants' War is fast-paced and engrossing and will leave readers ravenous for the next installment.”
--SciFi.com

"Charlie Stross' latest is a brilliant, amusing, and challenging piece of mestizo fiction -- recklessly cross-breeding fantasy and SF tropes, and using the resulting bonfire to say interesting things about culture, economics, politics, and really cool battles with chain-mail and MP5's and horses  and hang-gliders.  Very real people with very different backgrounds meet and collide and strike lovely sparks. This series is great and getting better all the time!"
--S.M. Stirling

“The action shifts rapidly among the three worlds in the fourth successive thriller in a fantastically thrilling series.”
--Booklist

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Kevin  rated it  
Jul 15, 2010
Not sure after the first one... but kept reading now I can't stop!
Great mix of fantasy and future science fiction ...more
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Mike  rated it  
Apr 5, 2010
One thing I love about Stross's books is that none of the characters are idiots (except those who are meant to be). Conflict doesn't come from "smart" people making dumb choices, it comes from smart people making decisions based on different sets of information or different beliefs and age ...more
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Greg  rated it  
Jan 13, 2010
The problem with any speculative series that introduces a radical world-shaking concept, is that the longer it goes on the more questions and problems will be raised. Case in point, by about the fourth or fifth Harry Potter book I really started to wonder was was the whole point of the magical socie ...more
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Charles Stross

Charles Stross is the author of the bestselling Merchant Princes series, the Laundry series, and several stand-alone novels including Glasshouse, Accelerando, and Saturn's Children. Born in Leeds, England, in 1964, Stross studied in London and Bradford, earning degrees in pharmacy and computer science. Over the next decade and a half he worked as a pharmacist, a technical writer, a software engineer, and eventually as a prolific journalist covering the IT industry. His short fiction began attracting wide attention in the late 1990s; his first novel, Singularity Sky, appeared in 2003.  He has subsequently won the Hugo Award twice. He lives with his wife in Edinburgh, Scotland, in a flat that is slightly older than the state of Texas.

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The Merchants' War
Book Four of the Merchant Princes
Merchant Princes (Volume 4 of 6)
Charles Stross

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September 2008
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