Empire Games: A Tale of the Merchant Princes Universe (Empire Games, #1)

by Charles Stross

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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

  • ISBN10 0765337568
  • ISBN13 9780765337566
  • Publish Date 17 January 2017
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 9 February 2022
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Tor Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English