Dark State
Charles Stross
Science fiction
This is the sequel to Empire Games. If you liked that, you'll like this. I did, and I did.
Mind you, the quarrel that I had with Empire Games is in full force here. (Mild spoiler ahead.) We have two governments who have nothing in particular to fight over, and who have no reason whatsoever not to acknowledge each other, dancing around creating artificial peril--instead of, oh, say, sending a few high-level bureaucrats to have a summit or something. If either side sent the other a note saying "Hi. We don't want a nuclear war. We hope you don't, either", this book would be about a quarter of its length. The excellent pacing is there to hide that fact.
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