The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes Series, Book 4
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The story of the worldwalkers just got stranger in Charles Stross's The Merchants' War. More worlds, more surprises. And there's a war going on ...
Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She 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.
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Charles Stross. (2015). The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes Series, Book 4. Unabridged Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Charles Stross. 2015. The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes Series, Book 4. Macmillan Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Charles Stross, The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes Series, Book 4. Macmillan Audio, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Charles Stross. The Merchants' War: Merchant Princes Series, Book 4. Unabridged Macmillan Audio, 2015.
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Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes, from pharmacist (he quit after the second police stakeout) to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup (with brilliant timing, he tried to change employers just as the bubble burst) to technical writer and prolific journalist covering the IT industry. Along the way he collected degrees in pharmacy and computer science, making him the world's first officially qualified cyberpunk writer. - name: Charles Stross
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Readers unfamiliar with Stross's Clan Corporate
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