The Merchant Princes
8 books in seriesThe Family Trade Publisher's Summary

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Book 1
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The Family Trade
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life as a successful reporter. When she gets iron-clad evidence of a money-laundering scheme, Miriam thinks she's found the story of the year. But when she takes it to her editor, she's fired on the spot and gets a death threat from the criminals she's uncovered. Before the day is over, she's received a locket left by the mother she never knew - the mother who was murdered when she was an infant. The knotwork pattern within has a hypnotic effect on her.
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Series worsened as it went on
- By Susan on 10-24-18
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The Family Trade
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-10-15
- Language: English
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Book 2
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The Hidden Family
- Merchant Princes, Book 2
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
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Miriam, a hip tech journalist from Boston, discovered her alternate world relatives in The Family Trade and with them an elite identity she didn't know was hers. Now, in order to avoid a slippery slope down to an unmarked grave, Miriam, known as Lady Helge to the Family, starts applying modern business practices and scientific knowledge to a trade dominated by mercantilists - with unexpected consequences for three different timelines, including the quasi-Victorian one exploited by the hidden family.
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Great story and narrator
- By C E Wright on 02-12-16
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The Hidden Family
- Merchant Princes, Book 2
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 05-26-15
- Language: English
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Book 3
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The Clan Corporate
- Book Three of the Merchant Princess
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots, and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip business journalist in Boston, she discovered (in The Family Trade) that her family comes from an alternate reality, that she is very well-connected, and that her family is too much like the mafia for comfort.
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These books are addictive
- By Kathleen Ward on 10-26-16
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The Clan Corporate
- Book Three of the Merchant Princess
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 06-22-15
- Language: English
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Book 4
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The Merchants' War
- Merchant Princes, Book 4
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
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Miriam Beckstein is a young business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan....
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A fun entry into the interdimensional saga
- By Jeremiah Mccoy on 03-28-19
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The Merchants' War
- Merchant Princes, Book 4
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 08-26-15
- Language: English
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Book 5
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The Revolution Business
- Book Five of the Merchant Princes
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
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Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, the Clan's army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come. Miriam, rescued from a tight spot in New Britain, finds the hopes of the young, progressive faction focused on her. Meanwhile, researchers working for the US government have achieved a technological breakthrough. The War on Terror is about to go transdimensional.
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The Revolution Business
- Book Five of the Merchant Princes
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 12-01-15
- Language: English
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Book 6
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The Trade of Queens
- Book Six of the Merchant Princes
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
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A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate-universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the president of the United States. Now they will exterminate the rest of the Clan and keep Miriam alive only long enough to bear her child, the heir to the throne of their land in the Gruinmarkt world.
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The author went to sleep
- By L. Roe on 01-07-16
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The Trade of Queens
- Book Six of the Merchant Princes
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 12-29-15
- Language: English
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Book 7
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Empire Games
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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Charles Stross builds a new series with Empire Games. Expanding on the world he created in the Family Trade series, a new generation of paratime travelers walk between parallel universes. The year is 2020. It's 17 years since the Revolution overthrew the last king of the New British Empire, and the newly reconstituted North American Commonwealth is developing rapidly, on course to defeat the French and bring democracy to a troubled world.
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Disappointing
- By Alex Beckers on 03-23-17
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Empire Games
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 01-19-17
- Language: English
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Book 8
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Dark State
- A Novel of the Merchant Princes Multiverse (Empire Games, Book 2)
- By: Charles Stross
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
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Dark State ups the ante on the already volatile situations laid out in the sleek techno-thriller Empire Games, the start to Stross' new story-line and a perfect entry point for new listeners, in The Merchant Princes series . In the near-future, the collision of two nuclear superpowers across timelines, one in the midst of a technological revolution and the other a hyper-police state, is imminent. In Commissioner Miriam Burgeson's timeline, her top level agents run a high risk extraction of a major political player.
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Good story when it was sometimes told.
- By Matt on 05-08-18
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Dark State
- A Novel of the Merchant Princes Multiverse (Empire Games, Book 2)
- Narrated by: Kate Reading
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 01-09-18
- Language: English
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