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Company Town by Madeline Ashby

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Also by Madeline Ashby:

Glass Houses, August 2025
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Glass Houses, August 2024
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ReV, July 2020
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Company Town, July 2017
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Company Town, May 2016
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Company Town
Madeline Ashby

Tor
July 2017
On Sale: July 18, 2017
288 pages
ISBN: 0765382911
EAN: 9780765382917
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Science Fiction

A futuristic version of Dick Tracy, as described by Margaret Atwood, who also tweeted that Company Town is a "smart, weird dystopia." New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.

Hwa is of the few people in New Arcadia to forgo bio- engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig—making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the art of self- defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?

Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be, but now, the danger is personal.

A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself.

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