The Clan Corporate: Book Three of The Merchant Princes
- ISBN-10
- 1429914866
- ISBN-13
- 9781429914864
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-04-01
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Author
- Charles Stross
Description
The third book (after The Family Trade and The Hidden Family) in the saga of the Merchant Princes by Charles Stross, in which Miriam gets into deadly trouble. Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in The Family Trade ) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is a lot too much like the mafia for comfort. In addition, starting with the fact that women are family property and required to breed more family members with the unique talent to walk between worlds, she has tried to remain an outsider and her own woman. And start a profitable business in a third world she has discovered, outside the family reach (recounted in The Hidden Family). She fell in love with a distant relative but he's dead, killed saving her life. There have been murders, betrayals. Now, however, in The Clan Corporate, she may be overreaching. And if she gets caught, death or a fate worse is around the bend. There is for instance the brain-damaged son of the local king who needs a wife. But they'd never make her do that, would they? At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Traders' War: A Merchant Princes Omnibus
By Charles StrossYet 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.
-
The Family Trade
By Charles StrossBelieving she has found a career-making story when she stumbles upon a money-laundering scheme, reporter Miriam Beckstein is shocked when she is fired and threatened with death, a situation that turns increasingly bizarre when she learns ...
-
The Merchants' War: Book Four of the Merchant Princes
By Charles StrossIn the sequel to The Clan Corporate, Miriam seeks refuge from the machinations of both the Clan and their opponents by escaping to yet another world, only to discover that there is a nasty war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan ...
-
The Hidden Family: Book Two of Merchant Princes
By Charles StrossCharles Stross is one of the big new SF writers of the 21st century, and the saga of The Merchant Princes is his most ambitious work yet.
-
The Traders' War: The Clan Corporate and The Merchants' War
By Charles StrossThe third and fourth instalments of The Merchant Princes series - Charles Stross's ambitious thrill-a-minute saga of multiple worlds.
-
The Bloodline Feud: A Merchant Princes Omnibus
By Charles StrossThe 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.
-
The Trade of Queens: Book Six of the Merchant Princes
By Charles StrossAfter a dissident group carries nuclear devices between worlds and explodes them in Washington, D.C., killing the president, U.S. intelligence agent Mike Fleming discovers that their act was part of a larger conspiracy devised by a faction ...
-
The Revolution Trade: A Merchant Princes Omnibus
By Charles StrossThe 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.
-
The Revolution Business: Book Five of the Merchant Princes
By Charles StrossThings are going badly for the Clan in this SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross.
-
Inside Corporate Innovation
By Robert A. Burgelman, Leonard R. SaylesThe new wave of organizational innovations involves new types of arrangements between individuals and corporations.