About the Book
A dissident faction of the Clan, the
alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our
world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the
worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States. Now they will exterminate the rest of the Clan and keep
Miriam alive only long enough to bear her child, the heir to the throne
of their land in the Gruinmarkt world.
The worst and deepest
secret is now revealed: behind the horrifying plot is a faction of the
US government itself, preparing for a political takeover in the
aftermath of disaster. There is no safe place for Miriam and her Clan
except, perhaps, in the third alternate world, New Britain — which has
just had a revolution and a nuclear incident of its own.
Charles
Stross's Merchant Princes series reaches a spectacular climax in this
sixth volume. Praised by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman as "great fun,"
this is state of the art, cutting edge SF grown out of a fantastic
premise.
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