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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Interesting concept, a bit far fetched in some ways and yet oddly credible in others. Based on road rage being carried to an extreme. (  ) topps | Oct 25, 2009 |  The author says this grew from a `nasty idea'. Really grim. (  ) cgodsil | Oct 17, 2009 | I could just not get into this book. I had a hard time empathizing with the characters and it was a struggle to find their surroundings believable. I lost interest barely a quarter of the way in and in the end put it down for something different. (  ) clarient | Jul 6, 2009 | The author's points of the devolution of power from governments to corporations has a dreadful outcome for most people and how corporations erode the moral center of the individual are interesting. The concept of Conflict Investing (investors via corporations funding sides in a war for profit rather than for a government's agenda) is intriguing. However, the characters were not as well developed as I would have liked, the ending was a bit dissatisfying, and the concept of job promotion through car combat was ludicrous. If you haven't read any of Richard K. Morgan's books, read Altered Carbon (his first and best book so far). Do not read this one unless you are already a fan. ( ) B3agleboy | Jul 6, 2009 | There is a social commentary underpinning here that detracts from the action; the author seems to have tried to write an action book that had a "moral" - two things that normally don't go very well together. It nearly works although the moralistic part got a bit heavy handed at some points. The sex (while still R rated) is pretty tame compared to the Altered Carbon series (X rated sex). The violence is also very graphic, and sometimes it goes on a little too long so that you get tired of all the dozens of ways they are maiming or killing someone. Overall, it's not as good as Thirteen or Altered Carbon, but it was engaging enough to finish with only minor skimming after the 185th scene of blood n' guts. (  ) crazybatcow | Apr 15, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 0345457749, Paperback)Richard Morgan, the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels, strikes out into new territory with Market Forces, leaving behind the farflung battlegrounds of Takeshi Kovacs for the not-so-distant future of corporate Earth. Here, Morgan extrapolates a world where commodities trading reaches a brutal pitch and the outcomes of banana republic uprisings are the new market. Now, on the road to success, the brokers of the new economy compete for status and promotions via road rage on the freeways of new London.Morgan's conflicted protagonist, Chris Faulkner, is a comer known for one spectacular kill that shot him to the top of mid-range global capital firm. He parlays his reputation and skills as a driver into a job in the emerging field of "Conflict Investment" at the world's hottest and hardest firm. Soon he finds himself running with the big dogs and rises to the top of a brutal realm, but his ascent is quickly threatened by vicious senior partners, gold-digging suitors, fame, fair-weather friends, and his own nagging conscience. Market Forces is at once an anti-globalization treatise and anime fantasy meets The Road Warrior. Morgan employs the graphic-novel imagery of his two previous novels to create a disturbingly brutal picture of slash-and-burn capitalism run amok. There are times when Faulker's moral quandries seem hollow in the face of his actions but this isn't Crime and Punishment. Enjoy the ride and "come back with blood on your wheels or don't come back at all." --Jeremy Pugh
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