![]() ![]() The world’s three information superpowers-Europe, China and India-are poised to go to war. As Elaine and Jack probe the robbery, it becomes clear that something else is going on-as evidenced by an anonymous threat to kidnap Jack’s niece, then an attempt to kill them both. Meanwhile, Hayek’s backers, sensing an attempt at stock-price manipulation, send forensic accountant and gamer Elaine Barnaby-who, once she grasps the situation, insists on calling in programmer and games expert Jack Reed to assist. ![]() ![]() It emerges that Hayek acts as a stabilizer for the economies of numerous online reality games, and if word of the robbery leaks out, their share price could plummet. He attempts to explain to dogged Sergeant Sue Smith that he’s been robbed by Orcs, who’ve raided the bank of VR game land Avalon Four. In 2018, in the People’s Republic of Scotland, Wayne Richardson, marketing director of Hayek Associates, a new dotcom startup involved with online virtual-reality gaming, calls the cops in a panic. Opening salvo in a near-future Information War, from Stross ( Glasshouse, 2006, etc.). ![]()
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