Publisher: St Martin's Press ISBN: 9780765382917 Number of pages: 288 Weight: 246 g Dimensions: 217 x 131 x 20 mm You may also be interested in. A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself. Company Town has never been the safest place to be, but now, the danger is personal. 2017 Winner of the Sunburst Award Societys Copper Cylinder Adult Award 2017 Canada Reads Finalist 2017 Locus Award Finalist for Science Fiction Novel Categ. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. 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. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. Still, her expertise in the art of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are in high demand. Madeline Ashbys Company Town is a brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that cant be saved, or saving herself. Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bioengine. 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. They call it Company Town - a city-size 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 New Arcadia to forgo bio-engineered enhancements.

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.

Company Town by Madeline Ashby