num_pages: 336
description: The year is 2020. It's seventeen years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire and the newly-reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world. But Miriam Burgeson commissioner in charge of the shadowy Ministry of Intertemporal Research and Intelligencethe paratime espionage agency tasked with catalyzing the Commonwealth's great leap forward--has a problem. For years she's warned everyone: The Americans are coming. Now their drones arrive in the middle of a succession crisisthe leader of the American Commonwealth is dying and the vultures are circling. In another timeline the U.S. has recruited Rita Miriam's estranged daughter to spy across timelines and bring down any remaining world-walkers who might threaten national security. But her handlers are keeping information from her.Two nuclear superpowers are set on a collision course. Two increasingly desperate paratime espionage agencies are fumbling around in the dark trying to find a solution to the first contact problem that doesn't result in a nuclear holocaust. And two womena mother and her long-lost adopted daughterare about to find themselves on opposite sides of the confrontation.
language: English
title: Empire Games
publisher: Tor Books