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Market Forces

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From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels–a turbocharged new thriller set in a world where killers are stars, media is mass entertainment,
and freedom is a dangerous proposition . . .

A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity is calling. In the superheated global village of the near future, big mone...more

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Published March 1st 2005 by Ballantine Books (first published March 2004)

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Dec 03, 2012 Thomas Cavano rated it 3 of 5 stars

Confessions: First of all, let me confess that I listened to the audio book, read by Simon Vance on a long drive. Second, let me confess that I now have read all of Richard K. Morgan's published novels, and have loved all of them. They are intelligent, surprising, innovative, full of rough humor and rough characters. They are all to some degree horrifying.

This one was one of the roughest, though not for its violence. It is horrifying because its dystopia is so accessible from where we stand. It...more

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Jul 10, 2012 Kyle rated it 2 of 5 stars

I almost gave this book three stars, but now I realize that third star would have been for the phenomenal discussion of philosophy and economics the text sparked in my class, so assuming you are reading this for a graduate course in English, don't skim it. Otherwise...maybe skim it? Or save it for a plane ride, the beach, or similar.

My experiences thus far indicate that the book appeals more to men, perhaps given its focus on fast armored cars, expensive alcohol, and the occasional porn-star sex...more I almost gave this book three stars, but now I realize that third star would have been for the phenomenal discussion of philosophy and economics the text sparked in my class, so assuming you are reading this for a graduate course in English, don't skim it. Otherwise...maybe skim it? Or save it for a plane ride, the beach, or similar.

My experiences thus far indicate that the book appeals more to men, perhaps given its focus on fast armored cars, expensive alcohol, and the occasional porn-star sex scene (none of which mean much to me). Furthermore, it's horribly edited. By this I mean that out of the 450-some pages, I'm fairly certain a minimum of 150 of those could have been cut while maintaining the value of a somewhat intriguing premise and the majority of the plot. For example, I don't need to be told repeatedly what brand of Italian leather shoes an executive is wearing, or what everyone ate for lunch, or even that Chris picked up his dry cleaning and hung it behind the driver's seat in his Saab. Or whatever. Everyone at Shorn is rich, I get it; the food, in this case, has no bearing on whether I find the characters believable; and nothing ever even happens with the dry cleaning! What a waste of paragraphs. I would have believed what the zones were like with one trip as opposed to several, and I find the so-occasional-they're-almost-non-existent-but-then-they-appear-when-Morgan-finds-them-convenient switcheroos to a totally omniscient narrator off-putting; plus I resent his laziness in the use of this device. There is just so much excess here, and while I realize that part of that may be intentional in a form-mimics-content sort of way, I find it hard to read and hard to care about.

I do, though, like Chris. I like him even more as the book goes on and he arguably becomes less sympathetic and more bloodthirsty--or at least more willing to participate in a bloodthirsty system. But he is believable, he takes action, and his story's end is, to me, so fitting that it redeems much of the book.

An extra note: the bibliography at the end of the book does not serve its purpose, since instead of letting me know what he's found "inspiring" (as per his intro), Morgan merely suggests his intent is to use the novel to preach--since he is now so ridiculously knowledgeable about neoliberalism and the excesses of global capitalism thanks to Noam Chomsky and Michael Moore--and then I like the societal criticism even less. I don't begrudge Morgan that the world he creates in MARKET FORCES might indeed be a plausible radical extension of capitalism, but I do think it's poorly executed. I'm generally a fan of sci-fi and am not put off Morgan forever, but his major issue here with fiction and science or economics seems to be their hasty, lazy, and ridiculous combination. I think the book could have been so much more. (less)

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Aug 07, 2011 Neil Pearson rated it 5 of 5 stars

I've no idea why it's taken so longer to get round to read this (I've owned it for 3 years now) but I'm pleased I did as this is easily Morgan's best work alongside 'altered carbon'. At first it reads a bit like wall street meets Mad Max but it soon develops into a story that has more similarities with a samurai movie. It can be painful reading, watching the main character gradually becoming that which he hates and the saying "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" is particularly apt h...more

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Mar 27, 2011 Andreas rated it 5 of 5 stars

After several deep recessions, the rift between rich and poor has widened dramatically. Corporations pretty much run the world, and the only game in town is to work for one, if you have the guts for it. Tenders and positions are battled for on the road with car duels, often to the death. It’s all very cutthroat and cool, but Morgan has somehow kept it just this side of believable. Our hero, Chris Faulkner, works for the Shorn Corporation in the Conflict Investment department. His job is, in simp...more

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Mar 07, 2011 Mark Harding rated it 4 of 5 stars

A fascinating book. That Morgan turns such a bleak vision of the world into something that is such fun to read is remarkable.

Flavours:

# Rollerball, Death Race 2000, James Bond (Daniel Craig era)
# Wall Street
# The Godfather
# A Clockwork Orange
# The book is extremely filmic. (In the Acknowledgements you learn the book is derived from a film treatment.)
# Masses of violence, no shortage of sex and a good leavening of wit
# Careful study of a marriage going wrong

As a satire, what is particularly inter...more

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Jan 19, 2011 Halden rated it 4 of 5 stars

Richard Morgan’s Market Forces paints a bleak, disheartening and fairly believable picture of our society in the year 2049. This is a world where the poor are penned in cordoned zones and keep in check by oppressive policing, dugs and lack of education. Corporations hold all the real power and executives (Zek-Tivs) are held to different legal standards. Not such a stretch is it?

The story focuses on the meteoric rise of Chris Faulkner’s career after his brutal killing of a fellow executive to ear...more

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Jan 05, 2010 Morgan Murray rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: scifi

What an odd book. Richard Morgan's books always feature heavily on violence and sex, but the Kovacs series seem to hang together a little more coherently than Market Forces - all the way through, there's a sense of viciousness and disgust snarling from the page but I really can't understand about what!

The book tells the story of Chris Faulkner, a Mad Max/Gordon Gecko hybrid who works in Conflict Investment for the Shorn Corporation. The CI arm of the firm bank-roll paramilitary organisations and...more

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Sep 11, 2009 Resonance rated it 4 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Morgan's writing style matches his protagonists very well; his prose is a blend of subtlety and raw unchecked power that utterly ignores social niceties to great and startling effect, much like the antiheros about which he writes. Although Market Forces is not quite as good as Altered Carbon and its two sequels, it taps a similar vein -- in some ways the Mad Max-flavored cyberpunk dystopia in which Market Forces takes place occasionally seems a little cliched and even heavy handed in contrast to...more

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Jun 06, 2009 Jim rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I just completed the unabridged audio book "Market Forces". No, it is not a book about today's business. No it is not (exactly) a Sci-Fi book. Well what is it?

Hard to describe. Set into the future around 2050 the book follows the future investment advisors of "Conflict International". An investment company that profits from the various little conflicts/overthrows/wars/etc between groups world-wide. CI acts much like a venture capital firm of today, they apply the money of their investors into th...more

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Dec 31, 2010 Ethan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Whew, talk about your testosterone-laden books! You have the hard-bitten hero (anti-hero?) with his rugged good looks and his tragic past, the hot chick trying to get into his (married) pants, tons of violent scenes featuring everything from souped-up hot rod combat cars to assault shotguns to karate chops to the throat...yeah, this is pretty much a dude fantasy. Sex, drugs, violence, and lots of good whisky.

So anyway, if you get over the fact that Richard Morgan wrote this book with his testicl...more

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May 14, 2009 Angie rated it 3 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I'm not sure if this counts as a spoiler or not, but I'm so fascinated by the concept behind this book- what makes it all possible. At first it seems ludicrous, then it's so simple it's scary. And, as a capitalist, I'm uncomfortable with the implications of the whole book, but I see where the corporations as string-pullers is, well, pretty understandable.

So the whole book is predicated on killing to keep one's job. Through car racing. After a series of recessions, the only people who can afford...more I'm not sure if this counts as a spoiler or not, but I'm so fascinated by the concept behind this book- what makes it all possible. At first it seems ludicrous, then it's so simple it's scary. And, as a capitalist, I'm uncomfortable with the implications of the whole book, but I see where the corporations as string-pullers is, well, pretty understandable.

So the whole book is predicated on killing to keep one's job. Through car racing. After a series of recessions, the only people who can afford cars, licenses, and gas are the executives that work for the corporations who finance the world. While it's implied, the whole background isn't explained until about 2/3 of the way through. Based on the idea that there's too many workers and not enough jobs, companies started out with, say, 8 people to an office but only 7 desks, so the last person in has to borrow a workstation, etc. If that person is consistently late, s/he is seen as the weak link and let go. Here it evolves to- the person who makes it to work first gets the job, straight out. The aggression and speed the person shows in "road raging" (as it's called) is thought to apply directly to their ability for business. A set of rules evolves, and precedents are set as to what is and is not allowed. At some point, someone kills their opponent, and all of a sudden the goal is not to just get there first, but to make sure that person can't compete again- by killing. An executive is expected to finish the job, no matter what. The challenges are set up in a socially codified fashion; if someone wants your job, within limits, that person can challenge you. If you lose, you're out of a job and probably dead.

Really, it's simple, right? I'm blown away by this simple little concept that, from where I sit now, seems so unlikely as to be unreal- but at the same time is totally realistic. That feeling of being unsettled permeates the whole book. It's an uncomfortable read; there is a lot of violence, and the main character really isn't that likable. I had a lot of sympathy for him, but he's set so firmly in his society that he can't pull out, at the end, for a sudden "Oh, I love him!" finish. And, yet, the ending of the book is totally perfect and flows seamlessly with the rest. The whole time I was rooting for him to come to his senses and defect from his job, but true to his character and personality- he couldn't. I'm not sure if 3 stars is enough for this book; I personally don't like reading some of the more gory scenes. But definitely a good read.(less)

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Jun 17, 2012 Benjamin Newland added it

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I have half a dozen books by Richard K. Morgan on my shelves already. I’ve previously reviewed his sci-fi series that begins with Altered Carbon, a novel that reads like the illegitimate love child of Dashiell Hammett and Philip K. Dick. I haven’t yet tried to review The Steel Remains because I’m not sure how to do so without putting an NC-17 rating on the plot outline alone.

Market Forces is set in the near future, in a world that extrapolates the worst of free-market capitalism into a dystopia...more I have half a dozen books by Richard K. Morgan on my shelves already. I’ve previously reviewed his sci-fi series that begins with Altered Carbon, a novel that reads like the illegitimate love child of Dashiell Hammett and Philip K. Dick. I haven’t yet tried to review The Steel Remains because I’m not sure how to do so without putting an NC-17 rating on the plot outline alone.

Market Forces is set in the near future, in a world that extrapolates the worst of free-market capitalism into a dystopia where road rage is a sanctioned way to climb the brutal corporate ladder. The story is set in a London where the haves are separated from the have-nots by razor wire and automatic weapons, and only high ranking executives can afford a tank of gas. Morgan’s prose is graphic and gripping, and he takes what—in lesser hands—could be a trite and tired “big corporations are evil” premiss and transforms it into something compelling, believable, and interesting. Even at the end of the story there are no clean places of black or white, just some very bloody shades of grey.

Like all of Morgan’s work, Market Forces is full of sex and violence to the point where the word “amoral” starts stomping on your frontal cortex. At least in this novel the sex is mostly separate from the violence; in fact, there is a pretty fascinating subplot about marital monogamy running through the main character’s life. Yet this kind of amoral violence is so common in popular entertainment any more that I almost want to recommend Morgan’s brand of amorality as a corrective to the kind pedaled by your average summer blockbuster. Yes, there is horrific violence, both intimate and disconnected, but nobody makes lighthearted quips or offers corny one-liners after a death or maiming. The impact of the violence is inscribed on the souls of those perpetrating it and observing it, and the story engages the suffering in a way that feels authentic to me.

One final side note for my friends who study writing craft: Morgan does something odd with periods in this novel. I read a digital library copy of Market Forces on an eReader, and maybe these were just mistakes in the digitization of the text, but sometimes he’d put a period where I would think a comma should have been and the next word wouldn’t be capitalized. In other places he’d put a period after the penultimate word in a sentence, then capitalize the final word and give it it’s own period. As far as I can recall this always happened in dialogue, so I think he was going for an inflection or speech pattern. If so, I think I liked it, after I got used to it. I’d be interested in someone else’s thoughts.

So, if you like Richard K. Morgan’s other work, I think you’ll like Market Forces. If you don’t read much fantasy or science fiction, this might be the best place for you to try the author out, as it feels much more like a near-contemporary novel—a corporate thriller perhaps—than his other work. If you don’t care for excessive swearing or graphic violence, maybe leave this one alone. I picked up a nice clean young adult urban fantasy novel to read next, just to cleanse the palette, you know?(less)

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May 10, 2011 Josh rated it 2 of 5 stars

I don't know. I just did not like this. I most disliked the bizarre and implausible death car battles by corporate executives. This was crucial to the plot, but thoroughly ridiculous. Other than that, the scenario is an absolutely depressing dystopic vision of capitalism gone wild, where corporate executives toy with and overthrow third world governments for a share of GDP.

All of the characters, with the possible exception of Carla (the protagonist's wife) and her family, are absolutely despica...more

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Nov 26, 2011 Graham Crawford rated it 2 of 5 stars

Dear Mr Morgan.
I allow my favourite writers one huge stuff up. Consider yourself served. This book was truly terrible in every way. You say it started life as a short story, and then you turned it into a film script. The sort of B grade sci fi with cheap effects I find myself telling friends "no SF's not really like that - the books are really good...Hollywood always dumbs things down".
Well thankfully this story was too dumb for even Hollywood to make.

What dreadful friends you must have, to co...more Dear Mr Morgan.
I allow my favourite writers one huge stuff up. Consider yourself served. This book was truly terrible in every way. You say it started life as a short story, and then you turned it into a film script. The sort of B grade sci fi with cheap effects I find myself telling friends "no SF's not really like that - the books are really good...Hollywood always dumbs things down".
Well thankfully this story was too dumb for even Hollywood to make.

What dreadful friends you must have, to convince you (after writing a couple of really intelligent books), to drag that mouldy script out from under your bed, a script you obviously wrote as a teenage boy, it's so seeped in adolescent porno fantasy, all your favourite boytoy movies wrapped into one mindless artless mess.

I have never read a script for the dukes of hazard or fast and furious. I imagine when they do the car chases there's a directors note that reads: (insert section choreographed by professional stunt producer) ---trying to follow the tyre screetching antics in my head, page after page, was so the wrong medium for this sort of content.

There were moments when I saw you were trying for a Tarantino film- alas without his pop charm. and quirky humour.
You got the senseless violence down, though beating old men to death in a company boardroom with a handy baseball bat just doesn't have the same effect in black and white (text) as it would have onscreen
(small mercies!).

It was never going to be made into a film - and so you took an idea so silly it makes Mad Max look believable, and convinced yourself you could convince us it's a plausible future scenario for a huge novel. You had two attempts to convince me - both were ridiculous. You could have written an anti-globalisation evil suit story, but you just couldn't let go of the stupid cars. And even then - If you want to write a story where EVERYONE is a complete shit, you're going to have to come up with a better style to keep me engaged. These characters were without redeeming qualities. As least Tarantino makes his villains fun to watch.

Now put away these childish fantasies and get to work on some stories for grown-ups!
I'M WATCHING YOU MORGAN!

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Mar 06, 2010 Mark rated it 3 of 5 stars

While an interesting concept for a book, I found this one of Morgan's more poorly written works. It takes place in a very near future where corporations have basically taken control of the world government. Large corporations make huge sums of money selling arms to developing third world nations. In the middle of this all, blood thirsty executives literally drive each other off the road in order to get coveted promotions.

While the premise of the book is interesting in a dystopic kind of way, the...more

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Dec 08, 2009 Robert Laird rated it 2 of 5 stars

There's a scene in the book where the characters hear violence in the next apartment, and no one does anything, until our anti-hero gets fed up and goes next door. He ends up shooting the man of the house in the shoulder and knees, and then gives the wife some money to get him patched up.

Well, this story was like that... I was getting fed up with it and wanted to take a gun to the author... not to kill, but simply to maim him by shooting his hands, so he couldn't write any more.

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it

Morgan (Altered Carbon ****Sept/Oct 2003; Broken Angels **** July/Aug 2004) leaves his far-future SF thrillers for a violent corporate satire. An indictment of globalization, the novel condemns economic exploitation and offers a scenario in which companies will sell anything in a world where human life is cheap. Though set in the near future, the thriller's premise convinced the critics. Initially conceived as a film script, Market Forces contains cinematic settings (like deadly car duels on oth

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Sep 27, 2010 Christopher McKitterick rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I felt this was the best SF novel of the year. This is surprising to write, because one really can't like the protagonist for most of the book. However, as the story progresses, we discover he's just a product of his environment - both his horrid childhood environment (the Zones) and his dog-eat-dog's-whole-family corporate environment that is the current time of the book. These influences have turned him into what he is... and it isn't necessarily a bad thing. He's the best person he could be a...more

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Sep 24, 2011 Pamela rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: gave-up-on

Tried listening to the audio version of this, but not even Simon Vance could make it interesting. I found the whole premise to be almost comic in its absurdity. Come on--executives killing each other?

Maybe it would have been a better reading it rather than listening to it. Or maybe it was just ridiculus?

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Feb 01, 2011 Jason Franks rated it 4 of 5 stars

In the near future, corporate executives must duel with each other on the roads in specially armoured cars in order to win tenders for their companies or promotions for themselves.

It took me a bit of time to buy into the premise of this book. Everything about the world that Morgan builds for us feels familiar and true, but the road battles just didn't feel right until anout three-quarters of the way through the book. Once Morgan explains the logic it's brilliant, but it bothered me for most of t...more In the near future, corporate executives must duel with each other on the roads in specially armoured cars in order to win tenders for their companies or promotions for themselves.

It took me a bit of time to buy into the premise of this book. Everything about the world that Morgan builds for us feels familiar and true, but the road battles just didn't feel right until anout three-quarters of the way through the book. Once Morgan explains the logic it's brilliant, but it bothered me for most of the journey up until that point. Luckily, the rest of the book is so good that it doesn't matter.

Market Forces begins with the protagonist, Chris Fawkner, starting a new job at the cutthroat London firm Shorn Associates. His work for Shorn is in the new growth area of Conflict Investment: a high risk sector where money is made by investing in small wars all across the developing world. And by 'investing-in', Morgan doesn't just mean supplying... Shorn's executives manage ongoing conflicts to maximize profits, shoring up corrupt regimes, backing rebel forces if the regime is working with a rival company.

The beauty here is in Morgan's grasp of geopolitics and finance. The world he shows us feels all to real as it extrapolates frightening trends in corporate culture and human greed. Here, office politics can and does determine the fate of nations. Unscrupulous traders like Fawkner manoeuvre defense contractors, arms dealers, shady intelligence operators along with stocks and bonds.

Morgan cultivates a genuine outrage at the global circumstances propagated by Shorn and its rivals. Fawkner, the protagonist, is in constant and escalating moral jeopardy and Morgan pulls no punches. We watch Fawkner sheds every shred of decency he has; becoming more and more like the greedy scumbags he works with.
As always, Morgan's prose is clean and fast-moving. Dialogue is sharp as it is neutral--the book is set in London, but this dialogue reads just as well with an American (or Australian) accent. Morgan drives you through Chris' nightmare, armour sparking as the story impacts with your sensibilities and expectations. It's a terrific ride, but not for the faint of heart. (less)

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Jan 01, 2012 Ricky Ganci rated it 5 of 5 stars

Once I realized that this book was going to be just as insightful without Takeshi, I really sank into it, enjoyed it, and got a lot more out of it than I did the other three by Morgan. It is a black, black, black book, full of chapter-enders and observations about 21st century lifestyles that are challenging, tough, and depressing all at the same time. Chris Faulkner was tragic as a protagonist, but another very memorable character who did just some unbelievable things. What makes Morgan one of...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Manel Fernández rated it 3 of 5 stars

Este es uno de esos libros que busca más acabar siendo el guión de una superproducción de Hollywood que un clásico de la ciencia ficción moderna. Así ocurre con los duelos a muerte a lo "Mad Max", escenas que difícilmente encajan en la historia sino es buscando un efectismo visual inmediato en la gran pantalla. No obstante, si nos abstraemos de estos notables defectos, nos encontraremos con una historia hasta cierto punto interesante que presenta una sociedad distópica deformada por el capitalis...more

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Apr 24, 2011 Patrick rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: sci-fi, spec-fic

Market Forces takes place in a ridiculous near future where investment banking executives control the fate of third world revolutions...and also duel to the death on the highways of England. (Ok, so the IBank stuff is far more plausible.) The story follows the adventures of a young executive named Chris, who I disliked within the first 20 pages, and who became less likable (although occasionally more sympathetic) as the book progressed. In fact, I found most of the characters repulsive.

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Mar 09, 2013 Fiona Moyler rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

Far be it from me to criticise Richard Morgan since I hero worship the guy, but this was a weird read. No one (not even RM) hates capitalism more than me, yet the premise of executives literally battling each other to the death was always faintly ridiculous. I know it was meant to be somewhat satirical, but it didn't quite work out for me. The worst bit was that the main character didn't contrast enough with the "baddies". He did all the same horrible things as them, yet based on nothing much, h...more

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May 29, 2012 Shane Moore rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: science-fiction

In a surprisingly plausible near-future Britain corporate finance executives engineer "small wars" for the profit of their investors. The business is fiercely competitive, and often results in automobile race fights to the death.

Chris Faulkner is a conflicted antihero, uncertain whether he can maintain his life of a corporate warrior. Chris remains a compelling and unpredictable character, even as the reader becomes more intimately familiar with his life. His relationships with his wife, clients...more

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Feb 01, 2010 Stuart rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Richard Morgan once held the position of being my favourite author. This book changed all that. Imagine the world of investment banking/corporate finance coupled with Death Race 2000. That's what this book is about. I'm sorry, but it just does not work and is completely ridiculous.

For me the final nail in the coffin was when the protagonist picks up a novel and leafs through it. A very brief plot synopsis is given of this novel and anyone who has read the earlier works of Mr Morgan would realis...more

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Aug 20, 2011 JJ DeBenedictis rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the first Richard K. Morgan book I've read that I didn't actually like very much, and that was a shock because normally his books make me squeal and glow with adoration--I just love them.

I understand the book was adapted from a screenplay, and that shows in that there are scenes where the action isn't described adequately in words. Those same scenes often lack interest, as prose, but would be very cool and exciting on a screen.

The ending is satisfying, but it's not a "happy" ending (not...more

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Dec 25, 2008 .50spiderbite Higgins rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is a hard-hitting, brutally portrayed satire about global affairs and funding of wars.

The main character, Cris Faulkner, is a corporate deal maker, but in this world, in order to climb the corporate ladder, you are required to kill the person you wish you replace. This is generally done on the highway in fatal road-rage style face offs. Sometimes multiple agents work together against other firms for an account.

One thing I must stress about this book and all of Morgan's books is that while...more

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Nov 07, 2010 Mike Kimera rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: speculative-fiction

Morgan creates a future in which large consultancies make money by sponsoring small wars. Requests for tender are literally fought out the different teams and the road is used by an elite who use their cars as weapons to attempt to assassinate each other.

While the premise is a deliberate exaggeration, the flavour and setting of the story reflects my experience of how it feels to work in large elite consultancies.

As usual, Morgan's writing is taut, his storytelling is compelling and his action se...more

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May 21, 2009 SpyNavy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another great Morgan book. I really enjoyed this novel and if you are like me you will probably envision the main character as Jason Statham. There is a lot of Death Race/Transporter type action within the book and is a novel look at the future corporate world. An interesting setting in a near future "megacorporation" society coupled with Morgan's unique vision makes for a pretty good read. The characters are dark, gritty antihero types that you may either love or hate, but perhaps a bit of both...more

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