The Investors’ Battle by Charles Stross includes The Clan Corporate as well as the Merchants’ War, the third and fourth instalments in the spellbinding The Merchant Princes series combined into one volume.

The journalistic instinct runs deep – and comes with a fatality warning.

Miriam was an ambitious business journalist in Boston. Until she was terminated – then uncovered, to her surprise, that her dropped family comes from an alternate fact. And although some of them are trying to eliminate her, she won’t stop about The Investors’ Battle: The Clan Corporate and The Merchants’ War digging up secrets. Given that she understands she’s inherited the family ability to walk between worlds, there’s a fresh culture to explore.

Her alternate home seems located around the center Ages, making her world-hopping relatives top dogs with regards to ‘importing’ guns and other gadgets from modern-day America. Payment moves from their providers to US medication rings – in the end, world-skipping drug athletes make great traffickers. Within a land where women are property, she struggles to remain independent. Yet her outsider methods won’t be tolerated, and a highly political arranged relationship is being brokered behind her back. If she can stay alive for long more than enough to protest.

The Investors’ Battle is preceded with the Bloodline Feud omnibus, and followed with the ultimate volume, The Revolution Trade.