Halting State
โ Scribed by Charles Stross
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA, Inc.
- Year
- 2010;2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 217 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1101208791
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โฆ Synopsis
In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are...
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