Company man is a tricky book to categorize. It's an alternate history mystery with some steampunk elements (although I personally wouldn't call it steampunk) and science fiction overtones.

The story takes place in a northwestern coastal city of the US in 1919/1920; this city does not exist in the real world but is the center of technology and innovation in this alternate world and is essentially run by *the* technological giant of the planet. The story is focused on a security employee for The Company who has unique ways of gathering information.

Overall, the story is fairly interesting and moves through a lot of politics and conflict between management and workers and police and corruption. The biggest flaw is toward the end. There is a big twist which was well built up and not unexpected. It is followed by a second twist that simply didn't work well and sets up a disappointing and lackluster ending. It was a shame that a book doing so well stumbled to the finish.