Market Forces
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Market Forces

MP3 CD – Unabridged, April 15, 2005

Price
$15.99
Publisher
Tantor Audio
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1400151394
Dimensions
5.3 x 0.6 x 7.4 inches
Weight
4.5 ounces

Description

"Simon Vance performs the work with the perfect amount of flexibility to make the listener empathize with a cadre of corporate killers. And even root for them." ---AudioFile Richard K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book that also won the Philip K. Dick Award. Morgan sold the movie rights for Altered Carbon to Joel Silver and Warner Bros. He lives in Scotland.Simon Vance, a former BBC Radio presenter and newsreader, is a full-time actor who has appeared on both stage and television. He has recorded over eight hundred audiobooks and has earned five coveted Audie Awards, and he has won fifty-seven Earphones Awards from AudioFile magazine, which has named him a Golden Voice.

Features & Highlights

  • A blistering near-future thriller that will propel Richard Morgan onto the bestseller lists - a novel that will be enjoyed by any thriller reader. What do you buy and sell when the global markets reach saturation point? The markets themselves. Thirty years from now the big players in global capitalism have moved on from commodities. The big money is in conflict investment. The corporations keep a careful watch on the wars of liberation and revolution that burn constantly around the world. They guage who the winners will be and sell them arms, intelligence and power. In return for a slice of the action when the war is won. The reward? A stake in the new nation. It's cynical, brutal and it has nothing to do with democracy and the rule of law. So what else is new? The executives in this lethal game bid for contracts, fight for promotion, secure their lives on the roads. Fighting lethal duels in souped up, heavily armoured cars on the empty motorways of the future. Chris Faulkener has a lethal reputation and a new job at Shorn Associates. Has he got what it takes to make a real killing?

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Managing Conflict

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 these "conflicts" hoping to make the results come out profitable for their investors. Well, if that is not odd enough for you, it gets stranger...

The corporate culture in 2050 has investment advisors battling on the roads in a kill or be killed conflict with other investment advisors. How do you get a promotion at CI? Simple you battle as road warriors to the death of the person who's job you want. It is a very strange society in this vision of the future.

Would I recommend it? A moderate yes. It is a long audio book and a bit hard to follow. The payoff is not as exciting as it could have been considering the setup.
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