{"product_id":"9781447246282-empire-games","title":"Empire Games","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen timelines collide and a cold war turns hot, one reluctant spy will change the stakes. This is the first book in the Empire Games series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA time of ambition, treachery and dangerous secrets . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRita Douglas is plucked from her dead-end job and trained as a reluctant US spy. All because she has the latent genetic talent to hop between alternate timelines - and infiltrate them. Her United States is waging a high-tech war, targeting assassins who can move between worlds to deliver death on a mass scale, and Rita will be their secret weapon.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Miriam Beckstein has her own mission, as a politician in an industrial revolution North America. She must accelerate her world's technology before their paranoid American twin finds them. It would blow them to hell. After all, they've done it before. Each timeline also battles internal conspiracies, as a cold war threatens to turn white hot. But which world is the aggressor - and will Rita have to choose a side?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEmpire Games\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book in the exciting series set in the same world as Charles Stross' The Merchant Princes series.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Mind-boggling, complex and truly brilliant' \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56451498410358,"sku":"9781447246282","price":8.09,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27129611.jpg?v=1760462763","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781447246282-empire-games","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}