num_pages: 352
description: Dark State is the second book in an exciting series in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series following Empire Games.In the near-future the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgesons timeline her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player. Meanwhile a sleeper cell activated in Rita's the Commissioner's adopted daughter and newly-minted spy timeline threatens to unravel everything.
language: English
title: Dark State
publisher: Tor Books UK