''The Cold Cash War'' is a 1977
science fiction novel by American writer
Robert Asprin. Based on an earlier short story of the same title, it is set in a
dystopian
A dystopia (from Ancient Greek δυσ- "bad, hard" and τόπος "place"; alternatively cacotopiaCacotopia (from κακός ''kakos'' "bad") was the term used by Jeremy Bentham in his 1818 Plan of Parliamentary Reform (Works, vol. 3, p. 493). ...
future. In this future, corporations, referred to as
Zaibatsu, have moved some aspects of their competition from the economic to the military.
The action takes place among
mercenary soldiers. At times, the conflict is under
rules of engagement where "killsuits" are used. The killsuit is a reverse
powered armor, acting to immobilize the soldier when the on-board computer decides that a lethal hit has been sustained. But, sometimes the rules break down, and lethal weapons and violence are used.
Novels by Robert Asprin
1977 American novels
1977 science fiction novels
Dystopian novels
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