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Market Forces by Richard Morgan. check out website: www.orionbooks.co.uk
If you don’t drive your opponent off the road and he dies then you can certainly shoot them after the crash. This rule structure is almost civilised with set rules of conduct although there isn’t too much complaint if you can cheat to win the advantage. This is the rules of the game when Chris Faulkner is recruited from another company cos of his kill rate to work for Shorn Associates in this Conflict Investment. What this really means is that unlike the old days when the CIA interfered in the politics and running of other countries, it’s now private enterprise and seen as a business concern. Oddly enough, this isn’t even the CIA but a company ran in the UK. This is a rough world where unless you make money then you probably live in a ghetto with a short life span expectancy. Throughout the story, Faulkner is having problems with his wife and a desire to hang up his driving wheel and do something rather more emotionally satisfying combined with all the usual problems of office politics and earning a living. Overall, this is very much a violent car movie set on paper. The characters are reasonably well-rounded although I did find flaws in Faulkner’s personality in as much that there weren’t really that many obvious signs why he was getting tired of his life. I’m still perplexed by him detailing his history and rise from the ghetto and where he got his education, other than for killing, that enabled him to have the knowledge to run a republic rebellion. Although I have to confess that I’m not entirely convinced by the promotional level Gollancz is going to with promoting this book, it will undoubtedly appeal to those of you who like roadkill stories dosed heavily with violent intrigue. I think what really stops this from being a major book is that lack of change. The philosophy at the end of the day is: if you can’t beat them, join them. All right, maybe this makes for a new age but there is a singular lack of development or real history to make you feel this is a real extension from some facet of our reality. This is really an element that Richard Morgan really needs to think about in his work if he wants to develop as a writer. GF Willmetts
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reality set in this near future story illustrates a rather quaint
way to gain promotion. Your position in a company can be worked
out in a game of Dare on a motorway. 
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