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The Trade of Queens
The TRADE of QUEENS
Book SIX or The Merchant Princes
CHARLES STROSS
TOR
A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
New York
This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events
portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination
or are used fictitiously.
THE TRADE OF QUEENS: BOOK SIX OF THE MERCHANT PRINCES
Copyright © 2010 by Charles Stross
All rights reserved.
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
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Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, EEC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stross, Charles.
The trade of queens / Charles Stross. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Merchant princes; bk. 6)
Book six of The merchant princes.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
ISBN 978-0-7653-1673-8
1. Clans—Fiction. 2. Nuclear weapons—Fiction. 3. Washington (D.C.)—Fiction. 4. Boston (Mass.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6119.T79T73 2010
823'.92—dc22
2009040696
First Edition: March 2010
Printed in the United States of America
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