Intrinsic Immortality: A Military Scifi Thriller (Sol Arbiter Book 2) by J.N. Chaney & Jia Shen

Author:J.N. Chaney & Jia Shen [Chaney, J.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2019-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

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Sif was an ugly town, like most former boomtowns are. Unlike Grise Fiord or Whale Cove, it didn’t have a history. There was no ancient Inuit settlement there or even an old trading post. It was an overgrown mining site, born in a minerals rush less than a hundred years before. What started as a man camp made up of Quonset huts and mess halls was now a grimy and prosaic little city with far too many taverns, brothels, and gambling establishments per capita for its own good. I was reading up on the local culture on my dataspike as we approached, trying to prepare myself for whatever we might run into. It didn’t make for encouraging research.

In Sif, municipal corruption and organized crime are too closely intertwined to be discussed as separate topics. Essentially, local offices of all kinds—from mayor to dog-catcher—are controlled by one of several political clans. Members of these clans own nearly all the city’s semi-legitimate businesses such as bars and gambling establishments, and they are believed to exercise total control over prostitution, drug-dealing, and other forms of vice.

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