The Family Trade
Miriam Beckstein, a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, finds iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she has uncovered. Before the day is over, she's received a locket left by the mother she never knew a the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. Within is a knot work pattern, which has a hypnotic effect on her. Before she knows it, she's transported herself to a parallel Earth, a world where knights on horseback chase their prey with automatic weapons, and where world-skipping assassins lurk just on the other side of reality a a world where her true family runs things. 'Fast, funny, busily inventive . . . [Stross] is the crAume de la crAume' Locus 'Science fiction is in good hands with Charles Stross here to lead the new generation' Orson Scott CardRather than fitted furniture there were a pair of huge oak wardrobes and a chest of drawers and other, smaller, furnitureaa dressing table with mirror, an armchair , something that looked like an old linen press. Every piece of furniture in theanbsp;...
| Title | : | The Family Trade |
| Author | : | Charles Stross |
| Publisher | : | Pan Macmillan - 2011-07-22 |
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