Market Forces

Mass Market Paperback. 12mo. Pp. [viii], 470. Glossy pictorial wraps. Bibliography to rear. Not published until the following year in the US as a trade paperback by Random House under its Del Ray imprint, and as a signed, limited edition hardback by the Easton Press under the moniker Richard K. Morgan.

Author's third novel. Winner of the 2005 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, and a finalist for the 2005 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Listed in Lyman Tower Sargent's, British and American Utopian Literature, 1986–2009. A dystopian thriller, warning on the dangers of globalisation and modern corporate practices, projected fifty years into the future, when companies, unfettered by domestic governments, hire out to kill. Conceived of as a short story, the idea was developed into a film script, before being released as a novel. By the author of Altered Carbon (2002), and Broken Angels (2003). "A fast-forward thriller from a major new talent." –SFX