The Company Man

The Company Man - Paperback

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The Company Man - Paperback

The Company Man - Paperback

by Edward M. Lerner
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Book Overview

One of the leading global writers of hard science fiction."

-The Innovation Show


"Lerner's world-building and extrapolating are top notch."

-SFScope


Dashiell Hammett meets Andy Weir


The Company Man, lowly accountant for the filthy-richest business in the Belt, has modest aspirations. Air and water not endlessly recycled. Food that had not been freeze dried and rehydrated. A few quiet days at home. And, if he can just figure out how, ripping off the company a bit. Alas, working as he does for evil geniuses, that final ambition seems impossible-until, at the end of an interminable trek among remote company mining asteroids, a mysterious emergency preempts his return flight.


Someone has discovered a flaw in the company's legendary security. If people must die to exploit it? That, apparently, isn't an obstacle. Or even the least of the consequences, in the Belt, elsewhere in the Solar System, and across Earth itself. With the body count rising, even the vast fortunes at stake cease to matter-and only the Company Man has a chance of averting interplanetary disaster.


If he survives ....
ISBN9781649731296
Author Edward M. Lerner
PublisherPhoenix Pick
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedApril 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages238
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Edward M. Lerner

Larry Niven is the award-winning author of the Ringworld series, along with many other science fiction masterpieces, and fantasy novels including the Magic Goes Away series. Beowulf's Children, co-authored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He has received the Nebula Award, five Hugos, four Locus Awards, two Ditmars, the Prometheus, and the Robert A. Heinlein Award, among other honors. He lives in Chatsworth, California. Edward M. Lerner has degrees in physics and computer science, a background that kept him mostly out of trouble until he began writing science fiction full-time. His books include Probe, Moonstruck, and the collection Creative Destruction. Fleet of Worlds was his first collaboration with Larry Niven. He lives in Virginia with his wife, Ruth.

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