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Richard Morgan, the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels, strikes out into new territory with Market Forces, leaving behind the farflung battlegrounds of Takeshi Kovacs for the not-so-distant future of corporate Earth. Here, Morgan extrapolates a world where commodities trading reaches a brutal pitch and the outcomes of banana republic uprisings are the new market. Now, on the road to success, the brokers of the new economy compete for status and promotions via road rage on the freeways of new London. Morgan's conflicted protagonist, Chris Faulkner, is a comer known for one spectacular kill that shot him to the top of mid-range global capital firm. He parlays his reputation and skills as a driver into a job in the emerging field of "Conflict Investment" at the world's hottest and hardest firm. Soon he finds himself running with the big dogs and rises to the top of a brutal realm, but his ascent is quickly threatened by vicious senior partners, gold-digging suitors, fame, fair-weather friends, and his own nagging conscience. Market Forces is at once an anti-globalization treatise and anime fantasy meets The Road Warrior. Morgan employs the graphic-novel imagery of his two previous novels to create a disturbingly brutal picture of slash-and-burn capitalism run amok. There are times when Faulker's moral quandries seem hollow in the face of his actions but this isn't Crime and Punishment. Enjoy the ride and "come back with blood on your wheels or don't come back at all." --Jeremy Pugh

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Hard to describe. Set into the future around 2050 the book follows the future investment advisors of "Conflict Int...more...]]> 3 0 false true Thu May 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 14:39:54 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 10:59:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:30:58 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:30:58 -0800 2009 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 l...

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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...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:27:24 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 18:31:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 13:53:27 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 13:56:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 23 20:53:09 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 19 01:48:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 09 23:27:43 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 01 10:14:50 -0700 2009 ("Show up with blood on your wheels or don't show up at all") but only the bravest go for a night out in the Zones. Chris's Conflict Investment depart...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Aug 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 11:42:08 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 12:00:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 11:55:32 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 11:59:29 -0800 2009
I felt like this book was written specifically for me as the audience. I don't want to spoil it however by talking about it.

Like Altered Carbon, t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 08 03:22:02 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 08 03:26:13 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 18:57:15 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 13:01:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 18:00:11 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 20:27:55 -0800 2008 raymond chandler-like hardness that plays really well to the secret kung-fu superhero I fantasize myself to be -- makes you want to drink, fight and fuck. But this one fell flat for me, largely because all of the characters are neither real nor likeable...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Dec 19 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 06:47:50 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 22:38:45 -0800 2008
Chris Falkner is an investment banker. But not really. See, he inv...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 16:01:57 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 30 15:09:43 -0700 2008
When you're about 70 pages into a 300ish page trade paperback and you're not sure what the hell is happening, something wrong is happen...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Mar 04 14:32:13 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 16 14:30:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Jan 29 20:32:06 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 29 20:37:47 -0800 2008 more...]]>