Author: Peter Tuscarora

ISBN: 1413766137

Set in the near future, Earth has been taken over by capitalism. Countries have
become economic zones. There are lots of Little-Rich left, like entertainers and
sports stars, but the world is run by five Super-Rich people, called
Capitalists. Individually worth trillions of dollars, they each run a specific
part of the world. Within their areas, they exert absolute control, and there is
constant battle with the other four Capitalists. Techno-military updates occur
at a furious pace, as each works to make sure that they are not the next to
fall.

The world has experienced five Money Wars, to reduce the number of Capitalists
to its present level. Those on the outside may not know that anything is
happening, but, for those on the inside, they are short and brutal. A
Capitalist's net worth can drop by tens of billions of dollars in minutes. One
of the Capitalists falls, and is captured. Instead of being executed, she is
intentionally kept alive so she can be tortured over and over.

Much of this happens because of mercenaries called Night Soldiers. Loyal to
whichever of the Capitalists offers the biggest paycheck, they get rid of the
"undesirables" (whatever that means). Quincy is one of them. He has a bit of
humanity left in him (concepts like love and God, anything that doesn't involve
money, are considered Old World, and have been thrown in the proverbial
trashcan). He understands that Money Wars are going to continue until there is
only one Capitalist left, The only group that can stand up to the Capitalists
are the Night Soldiers. Meantime, Raskolnikov, another of the Capitalists, on
his way down, wreaks ultimate vengeance on the rest of the world.

This book is cool, very plausible, very high-tech and does quite well in the
"strange" department. The author says that he has invented a new genre called
Extreme Fiction. I would be very interested in anything else he writes in this
genre.

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