The Doublecross Program Charles Stross As if trying to stay

As if trying to stay one step ahead of an assassin and juggling magical politics weren't challenging enough

and a plague of zombie porcupines - and Alexia barely has time to remember she just happens to be eight months pregnant

Lorkin has also had to become a feared black magician in order to harness the power of an entirely new kind of gemstone magic

The Wheel of Time series:

The Doublecross Program Charles Stross As if trying to stayM'chel Riss and the Star Risk, Ltd. team find themselves in the middle of a strange assignment: a staged bank robbery that involves putting money back. But the job soon takes an even stranger turn when they get caught up in a full fledged war over an addictive new consumer product. The roguish mercenaries will need to rely on every resource possible to make a buck and make it out alive in this fast paced tale of hard hitting action and a double cross