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The Company Man - Robert Jackson Bennett
The Company Man
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The year is 1919.The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships that tie the world together. And, above all, they built Evesden-a shining metropolis, the best that the world has to offer.But... show more
The year is 1919.The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built the guns that won the Great War before it even began. They built the airships that tie the world together. And, above all, they built Evesden-a shining metropolis, the best that the world has to offer.But something is rotten at the heart of the city. Deep underground, a trolley car pulls into a station with eleven dead bodies inside. Four minutes before, the victims were seen boarding at the previous station. Eleven men butchered by hand in the blink of an eye. All are dead. And all are union.Now, one man, Cyril Hayes, must fix this. There is a dark secret behind the inventions of McNaughton and with a war brewing between the executives and the workers, the truth must be discovered before the whole city burns. Caught between the union and the company, between the police and the victims, Hayes must uncover the mystery before it kills him.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780316054706 (0316054704)
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
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Wyvernfriend Reads
Wyvernfriend Reads rated it
3.0 The Company Man
This is a book that is hard to quantify, almost as hard as it was for me to get into, and to be honest I nearly gave up on it several times. It's the story of Cyril Hayes, who can get glimpses of how people think and what they're thinking about after spending some time with them, his policeman frie...
Blood Rose Books
Blood Rose Books rated it
2.0 The Company Man
Robert Jackson Bennett, takes us to a 1920s world, where the one company controls everything, and the thoughts of a workers turn unionization to help protect their rights but this company will to anything to make sure this does not happen.It is nearing the end of 1919, the world is controlled by the...
GizmosReviews
GizmosReviews rated it
The Company Man is a steampunk novel with alternate history and science fiction overtures. This makes for a very interesting setting. The book itself is set in Evesden, Washington in the early 20th (1919). Amazing new advancements have come courtesy of the McNaughton Corporation, and have ushered Am...
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