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The Clan Corporate (The Merchant Princes)

Series: The Merchant Princes
Volume: 3
Genre: Fantasy
ISBN: 0765309300
Pages: 320 pages
Publisher: Tor
Reader Rating: Not rated

The Clan Corporate by Charles Stross

Description: Stross's lively third volume in his Merchant Princes SF series (after 2005's The Hidden Family) finds 33-year-old Boston journalist Miriam Beckstein still caught in a "barely post-feudal" alternate world where she's part of a mafiosa-like family called "the Clan." The Clan is holding Miriam's mother hostage in an effort to force the reluctant, thoroughly modern Miriam to make a politically advantageous marriage. Also dragged into deadly Clan politics is Miriam's ex-boyfriend, Mike Fleming, a DEA agent who has infiltrated Miriam's world on the orders of Homeland Security.