PERFECT DARK 2: SECOND FRONT
Welcome to the era of the hypercorporation, business entities so sprawling and vast that they field private armies and buy entire nations outright. These corporate empires are constantly engaged in covert battles for market dominance, and the general public sees and knows nothing as they are used as pawns in this global chess game.
Joanna Dark, an operative of the Carrington Institute, has sworn to bring down the dataDyne Corporation, the largest, most pervasive hypercorp in the world. But Joanna's vengeance is personal: She holds dataDyne responsible for the murder of her father and will do anything to bring them down. Returning from a field operation that turned bloody, she is exhaused, wounded, and in desperate need of downtime...but the murder of two prominent corporate officials have put the Carrington Institute on high alert. Someone out there is single-handedly redefining the term "hostile takeover" and has placed the Carrington Institute—and its enigmatic founder, Daniel Carrington—square in the gun sights of every hypercorp on the planet.
It appears that each murder has been carried out by none other than Joanna Dark.
In hopes of clearing her name, and the Carrington Institute, Joanna must battle ghosts from her past, high-tech mercenaries who want her dead, and a killer who could be wearing anyone's face...
(Book 2 in the Perfect Dark series)
Rights Information
Publisher: Tor Books, Paperback (January 9, 2007)
Tor Books, Mass Market Paperback (May 29, 2007)
Audio Renaissance, Unabridged Audio CD (October 17, 2006)
Territory: All
Rights Available: None
Reviews:
"Thank you Greg Rucka. Let me paint a picture for you people. You've had one of those unsatisfying work days... the kind that makes you want to "stick it to the man". Meet Joanna Dark, a bounty hunter for the 21st century mystery reader... Nobody does it better. This is a femme the boys will lust after and the gals will cheer for and visa-versa. Kick-ass has a new pseudonym, it's perfect." - CrimeSpree Magazine
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