Hugo Award-winning author Charles 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
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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.