The Bloodline Feud
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Release Date : 2014-01-07
ISBN 10 : 9781466863934
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (466 users)
Download or read book The Bloodline Feud PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels in Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes series The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both. Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovers her alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shake three worlds. Now, as the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, she finds herself ensnared in schemes and plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely allies, lethal contraband, and—most dangerous of all—her family. To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam must build a power base of her own—with unexpected consequences for three different time lines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Bloodline Feud
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Release Date : 2014-09-09
ISBN 10 : 0765378663
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (378 users)
Download or read book The Bloodline Feud PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bloodline Feud: an omnibus edition of the first two novels in Charles Stross's The Merchant Princes series The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes. They are a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours makes them rich in both. Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovers her alternate-world relatives with explosive results that shake three worlds. Now, as the prodigal Countess Helge Thorold-Hjorth, she finds herself ensnared in schemes and plots centuries in the making. She is surrounded by unlikely allies, lethal contraband, and--most dangerous of all--her family. To avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam must build a power base of her own--with unexpected consequences for three different time lines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.
The Bloodline Feud
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2013-04-11
ISBN 10 : 9780230771734
Pages : 700 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (23 users)
Download or read book The Bloodline Feud PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross includes The Family Trade and The Hidden Family - the first two instalments of The Merchant Princes series combined in one volume. Miriam Beckstein is a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine. So when she discovers a huge money-laundering scam, she thinks she's hit the big time. But when she takes it to her editor, not only is she fired, but she starts to receive death threats. And that's just the beginning. To distract her furious daughter, Miriam's adoptive mother unearths mementos from her real mother, murdered when she was an infant. But these reveal a secret that will ultimately throw entire governments into disarray. For what Miriam thinks is a simple locket has the power to fling her into an alternate timeline. In this less-developed world, knights on horseback wield automatic weapons, and world-skipping assassins lurk - all on the other side of our reality. Here, her true family runs a criminal empire - and they want her back. But Miriam has other plans. Following The Bloodline Feud are two further omnibus volumes, The Traders' War and The Revolution Trade.
Invisible Sun
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2021-09-30
ISBN 10 : 9781447247616
Pages : 439 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (447 users)
Download or read book Invisible Sun PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this chillingly resonant dystopian adventure, two versions of America are locked in conflict. Invisible Sun concludes Charles Stross’s Empire Games trilogy. Two twinned worlds are facing attack The New American Commonwealth is caught in a deadly arms race with the USA, its parallel-world rival. And the USA’s technology is decades ahead. Yet the Commonweath might self-combust first – for its leader has just died, leaving a crippling power vacuum. Minister Miriam Burgeson must face allegations of treason without his support, in a power grab by her oldest adversary. However, all factions soon confront a far greater danger . . . In their drive to explore other timelines, high-tech USA awakened an alien threat. This force destroyed humanity on one version of Earth. And if the two superpowers don’t take action, it will do the same to them. Invisible Sun follows Empire Games and Dark State. This trilogy is set in the same dangerous parallel world as Charles Stross’s Merchant Princes sequence.
Dark State
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Release Date : 2018-01-09
ISBN 10 : 9781466835177
Pages : 368 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (466 users)
Download or read book Dark State PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire 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. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Empire Games
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2017-01-26
ISBN 10 : 9781447246275
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (447 users)
Download or read book Empire Games PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . . . Rita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon. Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, as a politician in an industrial revolution North America. She must accelerate her world's technology before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow them to hell. After all, they've done it before. Each timeline also battles internal conspiracies, as a cold war threatens to turn white hot. But which world is the aggressor - and will Rita have to choose a side? Empire Games is the first book in the exciting series set in the same world as Charles Stross' The Merchant Princes series. 'Mind-boggling, complex and truly brilliant' Daily Mail
The Traders' War
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Release Date : 2014-01-07
ISBN 10 : 9781466863941
Pages : 624 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (466 users)
Download or read book The Traders' War PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Traders' War -- an omnibus edition of the third and fourth novels in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series. Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston. Until she was fired—then discovered, to her shock, that her lost family comes from an alternate reality. And although some of them are trying to kill her, she won't stop digging up secrets. Now that she knows she's inherited the family ability to walk between worlds, there's a new culture to explore. Her alternate home seems located around the Middle Ages, making her world-hopping relatives top dogs when it comes to "importing" guns and other gadgets from modern-day America. Payment flows from their services to U.S. drug rings—after all, world-skipping drug runners make great traffickers. In a land where women are property, she struggles to remain independent. Yet her outsider ways won't be tolerated, and a highly political arranged marriage is being brokered behind her back. If she can stay alive for long enough to protest. "These books are immense fun."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
The Revolution Trade
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tor Books
Release Date : 2014-01-07
ISBN 10 : 9781466863965
Pages : 576 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (466 users)
Download or read book The Revolution Trade PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2014-01-07 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution Trade: an omnibus edition of the fifth and sixth novels--The Revolution Business and Trade of Queens--in Charles Stross's Merchant Princes series. Miriam Beckstein has said good-bye to her comfort zone. The transition from journalist to captive in an alternative timeline was challenging to say the least, she discovered that her long-lost family, the Clan, were world-skipping assassins. Now, while civil war rages in her adopted home, she's pregnant with the heir to their throne and a splinter group want her on their side of a desperate power struggle. But as a leader or figurehead? Meanwhile, unknown to the Clan, the US government is on to them and preparing to exploit this knowledge. But it hadn't foreseen a dissident Clan faction carrying nuclear devices between worlds—with the US president in their sights. The War on Terror is about to go transdimensional. But Mike Fleming, CIA agent, knows the most terrifying secret of all: His government's true intentions. "These books are immense fun."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Jacked Cat Jive
Author : Rhys Ford
Publisher : DSP Publications
Release Date : 2019-03-05
ISBN 10 : 9781640809680
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (64 users)
Download or read book Jacked Cat Jive PDF or another Format written by Rhys Ford and published by DSP Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalker Kai Gracen is caught between two worlds, the humans who raised him and the elfin Courts he was born to. When Ryder, a Sidhe lord he’s sworn to protect, needs him to rescue a group of refugees, Kai must rise to the challenge without losing a part of himself in the process.
Silk Dragon Salsa
Author : Rhys Ford
Publisher : DSP Publications
Release Date : 2020-07-14
ISBN 10 : 9781644058701
Pages : 202 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (644 users)
Download or read book Silk Dragon Salsa PDF or another Format written by Rhys Ford and published by DSP Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalker Kai always knew Death walked in his shadow. But when his search for his mentor's estranged brother brings Death to his door, Kai discovers a fierce need to live life to the fullest.
Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murder
Author : David Dagley
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date : 2009-03
ISBN 10 : 9781612048154
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (612 users)
Download or read book Cale Dixon and the Moguk Murder PDF or another Format written by David Dagley and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cale Dixon, a detective on suspension, is assigned a research case just prior to reinstatement. A South Korean man, the oldest son of the Won family, is found with a mouthful of Moguk rubies and stabbed in the back with an Un Jang do knife that has been discretely passed down though generations of the Cho dynasty women. Cale has nothing to go on so he travels on a scheduled vacation but alters course to Burma to learn about the Moguk Ruby. He, by chance, falls in the right hands and meets up with a major Mandalay jewelry family. While the jewelers do some black market research for Cale, he tours the Burmese countryside somewhere between hiding from the secret police and running from them. After traveling through the repressed land, he returns to the states and gets more turns and twists than he bargains for.
Mad Lizard Mambo
Author : Rhys Ford
Publisher : DSP Publications
Release Date : 2019-03-05
ISBN 10 : 9781644053195
Pages : 231 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (644 users)
Download or read book Mad Lizard Mambo PDF or another Format written by Rhys Ford and published by DSP Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalker Kai Gracen and sidhe lord Ryder chase down ancient magic in the Nevada desert, in the hopes it can save their people. But what they find might ruin Kai’s future with his own kind—and Ryder.
Wonderland City
Author : Rhys Ford
Publisher : DSP Publications
Release Date : 2020-04-28
ISBN 10 : 9781644057162
Pages : 92 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (644 users)
Download or read book Wonderland City PDF or another Format written by Rhys Ford and published by DSP Publications. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Xander Spade fled to Wonderland to escape the devil who took his soul, and fell prey to the Queen of Hearts instead. Now he has a chance to go home—but first he must find a missing girl before all Hell breaks loose.
The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (September 2022)
Author : Julie Ann Dawson
Publisher : Bards and Sages Publishing
Release Date : 2022-09-06
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 323 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( users)
Download or read book The Society of Misfit Stories Presents... (September 2022) PDF or another Format written by Julie Ann Dawson and published by Bards and Sages Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each issue of The Society of Misfit Stories Presents… is a celebration of long-form fiction. These novelettes and novellas will entertain and surprise fans of the form. A sample of what you will find in this issue: The interrogation of a revenant by a priest takes an ominous turn in Brillante and Night’s Dark Master. A campaign worker on a simple voting drive uncovers a terrifying local secret in When the Hunters Prowl the Night. A young girl decides to test the truth behind local fables in The Old Man of the Mountain.
Black Dog Blues
Author : Rhys Ford
Publisher : DSP Publications
Release Date : 2019-03-05
ISBN 10 : 9781644053171
Pages : 238 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (644 users)
Download or read book Black Dog Blues PDF or another Format written by Rhys Ford and published by DSP Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stalker and elfin outcast Kai Gracen has no hope of escaping a deadly bloodline feud.
Dead Lies Dreaming
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tordotcom
Release Date : 2020-10-27
ISBN 10 : 9781250267016
Pages : 400 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (25 users)
Download or read book Dead Lies Dreaming PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When magic and superpowers emerge in the masses, Wendy Deere is contracted by the government to bag and snag supervillains in Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross' Dead Lies Dreaming: A Laundry Files Novel. As Wendy hunts down Imp—the cyberpunk head of a band calling themselves “The Lost Boys”— she is dragged into the schemes of louche billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge. Rupert has discovered that the sole surviving copy of the long-lost concordance to the one true Necronomicon is up for underground auction in London. He hires Imp’s sister, Eve, to procure it by any means necessary, and in the process, he encounters Wendy Deere. In a tale of corruption, assassination, thievery, and magic, Wendy Deere must navigate rotting mansions that lead to distant pasts, evil tycoons, corrupt government officials, lethal curses, and her own moral qualms in order to make it out of this chase alive. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Quantum of Nightmares
Author : Charles Stross
Publisher : Tordotcom
Release Date : 2022-01-11
ISBN 10 : 9781250839381
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (25 users)
Download or read book Quantum of Nightmares PDF or another Format written by Charles Stross and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique blend of espionage thrills and Lovecraftian horror, Hugo Award-winning author Charles Stross's Laundry Files continues with Quantum of Nightmares. It’s a brave new Britain under the New Management. The avuncular Prime Minister is an ancient eldritch god of unimaginable power. Crime is plummeting as almost every offense is punishable by death. And everywhere you look, there are people with strange powers, some of which they can control, and some, not so much. Hyperorganized and formidable, Eve Starkey defeated her boss, the louche magical adept and billionaire Rupert de Montfort Bigge, in a supernatural duel to the death. Now she’s in charge of the Bigge Corporation—just in time to discover the lethal trap Rupert set for her long ago. Wendy Deere’s transhuman abilities have gotten her through many a scrape. Now she’s gainfully employed investigating unauthorized supernatural shenanigans. She swore to herself she wouldn’t again get entangled with Eve Starkey’s bohemian brother Imp and his crew of transhuman misfits. Yeah, right. Mary Macandless has powers of her own. Right now she’s pretending to be a nanny in order to kidnap the children of a pair of famous, Government-authorized superheroes. These children have powers of their own, and Mary Macandless is in way over her head. Amanda Sullivan is the HR manager of a minor grocery chain, much oppressed by her glossy blonde boss—who is cooking up an appalling, extralegal scheme literally involving human flesh. All of these stories will come together, with world-bending results... "For all of Stross's genuine ability to spook and dismay, The Laundry Files are some of the most tremendously humane books I've ever read." —Tamsyn Muir, author of Gideon the Ninth and Harrow the Ninth At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
