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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Main Time Lines
Main Character Profiles
Part One: Dog and Pony Show
Prologue
Trade Show
Motivating Rita
Evasions
Spies
Politicians
Empire Games
Part Two: Fast Track
Training Mission
Surgical Intervention
In the Valley of the Shadow of the Gate
Deployment
Switches
Extraction
Shell Game
Mission Abort
Contact
Afterword
Principal Cast List
Glossary of Terms
Tor Books by Charles Stross
About the Author
Copyright
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
EMPIRE GAMES
Copyright © 2016 by Charles Stross
All rights reserved.
Cover design and art direction by Neil Lang
Cover photographs by Shutterstock
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ISBN 978-0-7653-3756-6 (hardcover)
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First Edition: January 2017