Her company sends her to Edinburgh to try and find out if one of their clients was up to some shady business leading up to the robbery. She is also a reenactor and a sword-fighting enthusiast. To make things more interesting, one of the company's main programmers, a reclusive work-from-home type, is missing without a trace, and nobody in the office can recall having ever seen him.Įlaine is a Forensic Accountant, who specializes in digging through other peoples' books to look for evidence of fraud or other financial negligence. Sue, a police officer in Edinburgh, responds to a call about a theft at a software company, only to learn that what was stolen is a bit out of her area of expertise: several hundred thousand Euros worth of virtual valuables from Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Game. Halting State is a 2008 Post-Cyberpunk novel by Charles Stross.
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