Company Town

By Madeline Ashby

Book Overview

2017 Winner of the Sunburst Award Society's Copper Cylinder Adult Award
2017 Canada Reads Finalist
2017 Locus Award Finalist for Science Fiction Novel Category
2017 Sunburst Award Finalist for Adult Fiction
2017 Aurora Awards Finalist for Best Novel

Madeline Ashby's Company Town is a brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself.

"Elegant, cruel, and brutally perfect, Company Town is a prize of a novel." --Mira Grant, New York Times Bestselling and Hugo-Award nominated author of the Newsflesh series

New Arcadia is a city-sized oil rig off the coast of the Canadian Maritimes, now owned by one very wealthy, powerful, byzantine family: Lynch Ltd.

Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig--making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?

Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be--but now, the danger is personal.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765382911
• ISBN13: 9780765382917
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Really good! Kickass MC. Literally.

I love love love love the MC she’s written just amazingly. In a city of technology and body mods Hwa is “pure” and we get to see her struggle through it and beat up some evil people on the way. The only reason I took a star off was because the end happened really fast and I got a bit lost. Kind of felt a bit like what the hell is happening!