The Bloodline Feud

Miriam Beckstein is a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine. So when she discovers a huge money-laundering scam, she thinks she's hit the big time. But when she takes it to her editor, not only is she fired, but she starts to receive death threats. And that's just the beginning.To distract her furious daughter, Miriam's adoptive mother unearths mementos from her real mother, murdered when she was an infant. But these reveal a secret that will ultimately throw entire governments into disarray. For what Miriam thinks is a simple locket has the power to fling her into an alternate timeline. In this less-developed world, knights on horseback wield automatic weapons, and world-skipping assassins lurk – all on the other side of our reality. Here, her true family runs a criminal empire – and they want her back. But Miriam has other plans.The Bloodline Feud by Charles Stross includes The Family Trade and The Hidden Family – the first two instalments of The Merchant Princes series combined in one volume. Following The Bloodline Feud are two further omnibus volumes, The Traders' War and The Revolution Trade.

'A festival of ideas in action, fast moving and often very funny.' -- Locus
'It’s official – Charles Stross can do anything ... It’s never less than completely engrossing, with nifty surprises at all the right moments …This is the thinking-person’s adventure so many SF and fantasy fans say they wish for. Pacing is pitch-perfect and suspense is taut.' -- A.L.Kennedy, Booker-listed author

Charles Stross was born in Leeds, England, in 1964. He has worked as a pharmacist, software engineer and freelance journalist, but now writes full-time. To date, Stross has won two Hugo awards and been nominated twelve times. He has also won the Locus Award for Best Novel, the Locus Award for Best Novella and has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke and Nebula Awards. He is the author of the popular Merchant Princes and Empire Games series, set in the same world. In addition, his fiction has been translated into around a dozen languages. Stross lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife Feorag, a couple of cats, several thousand books and an ever-changing herd of obsolescent computers. Kate Reading has been a freelance narrator for over 20 years. She has received two Audie Awards and numerous Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which has named her Narrator of the Year and Best Voice in science fiction and fantasy for her narration of Jim Butcher's Codex Alera series. As Jennifer Mendenhall, she has worked as a stage actor in the Washington, DC area and has been a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company since 1987.

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