This is the third in The Merchant Princes series, which has quite a fascinating and well thought out premise. A very small number of people (with 2 copies of a recessive gene) can travel with difficulty and pain from one parallel world to another, with what they can carry. The Families that can do this are powerful in the other world and unknown, rich and drug smugglers in our world. The worlds have had quite different histories, even coast lines are different.
Miriam has this ability, and was raised in our world and is now trying to live in the other. Unfortunately she behaves like a stereotypical American, ie with complete disregard for different cultural values and norms and lines of power, so things go rather pear shaped.
The American Government also finds out about the other world, and their smuggling and general skulduggery, and behaves as the American Government always does in near future SF books, ie by setting up yet another security agency which behaves as though the immoral means justifies the imperial ends, the ends being them winning at all costs, and laws (especially habeas corpus) only applying to other people.
Miriam has this ability, and was raised in our world and is now trying to live in the other. Unfortunately she behaves like a stereotypical American, ie with complete disregard for different cultural values and norms and lines of power, so things go rather pear shaped.
The American Government also finds out about the other world, and their smuggling and general skulduggery, and behaves as the American Government always does in near future SF books, ie by setting up yet another security agency which behaves as though the immoral means justifies the imperial ends, the ends being them winning at all costs, and laws (especially habeas corpus) only applying to other people.
The Clan Corporate first published 2006
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