Deep State

By day Dagmar Shaw orchestrates vast games with millions of players spanning continents. By night, she tries to forget the sound of a city collapsing in flames around her. She tries to forget the faces of her friends as they died in front of her. She tries to forget the blood on her own hands.But then an old friend approaches Dagmar with a project. The project he pitches is so insane and so ambitious, she can't possibly say no. But this new venture will lead her from the world of alternate-reality gaming to one even more complex. A world in which the players are soldiers and spies and the name of the game is survival.ReviewPowerful ideas, brilliantly executed ... you should take this as a recommendation Charles Stross, award-winning author of HALTING STATE With admirable topicality, DEEP STATE concerns the fomenting of revolution against an repressive regime using modern networked communications TELEGRAPH A neatly plausible scenario that riffs off recent events in Iran to fine effect as Williams brings an SF sensibility to what's essentially a spy thriller. Recommended. BBC FOCUS