I just finished the third book in Charles Stross's science fiction series The Merchant Princes (See my posts of 3/20/17 & 4/17/17.) . In The Clan Corporate (#677) Miriam Beckstein is still futilely struggling against the bounds her powerful relatives in the world of Gruinmarkt are trying to impose on her. She's been blocked from accessing her start-up company in the world of New Britain, and the prospect of an arranged marriage is being raised with distressing regularity. What's a modern woman supposed to do? Suddenly, she's landed in it with both feet and is in serious danger of losing not only her own life, but that of her mother as well if she doesn't cooperate.
In the meantime, this book swerves towards a chink the US Government has opened into Gruinmarkt. Miriam's ex-boyfriend with the DEA is dragged unwittingly into things when a defector from that world informs him that Gruinmarkt possesses nuclear weapons, and is in a position to deploy them in the United States. Mike Fleming is groomed to go under cover in Gruinmarkt and quietly make contact with Miriam. Of course things do not go well at their next meeting and Miriam is forced to jump from the frying pan into the fire...
What's next? I can't wait to read the next book to find out!
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