Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)

Weapons Grade Snake Oil was a 2017 novel in the Faction Paradox series.

	Sojourner Hooper-Agogô
	Obverse Books
	Blair Bidmead
	Lawrence Burton
	17 January 2017
	ISBN 978-1-909031-52-4
Faction Paradox
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Publisher's summary

"There she goes. Running flat out. Little Sojourner. Not really dressed for a sprint. Moves pretty fast for a woman of her age though. She's carrying something. Hard to see from this far away.

Maybe, if we moved a little closer.

Sojourner has a gun in each hand. She swings them, awkwardly as she dashes across the gravel. Barefoot. Her evening dress looks a mess. That backpack looks heavy. There's a sheen to her dark skin. But, look; it isn't sweat. It's blood.

That isn't a pattern on her dress either. That's blood too. Her braids are spraying a trail of red in their wake. That's a lot of blood.

It's not her blood."

Plot

to be added

Characters

• Sojourner Hooper-Agogô
• L-Event
• Rex Agogô
• Anne Bonny
• The Kraken
• The Hussar
• Father Christèmas
• Cousin Chantelle
• Cousin Haribeaux
• Godmother Antigone
• Cousin Rupert
• Captain James "Porkbelly" Coker
• Cousin Kharon

References

• Faction's more unpredictable elements are housed in Bankside.

Notes

Porkbelly and the Lost Pirates.

• To accompany the novel author Blair Bidmead released the short story Sojourner & Ellie, the illustration "The Lost Pirates", and a 75-minute soundtrack called Haribeaux's Sour Mix.

Continuity

• Sojourner was introduced as a Faction Paradox member in PROSE: Now or Thereabouts while L-Event was introduced in PROSE: A Hundred Words from a Civil War.
• Sojourner led the revolution against the Company's control of Pluto. (PROSE: The Sun Makers)
• Cousin Haribeaux was kept in the Boulevard of Alternate Brutalities. (PROSE: Library Pictures)
• A memo written by Robert Scarratt is seen. (PROSE: The Brakespeare Voyage, The Book of the War)
• A tweet from Iris Wildthyme is seen. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress, et al.)
• Excerpts from Faction Paradox: a Negotiable History are seen. (PROSE: Of the City of the Saved...)
• Christèmas claims to have tried to negotiate with the Pilots' Coterie. (PROSE: The Book of the War)
• Christèmas says that the Great Houses used to claim that "You couldn't rewrite [history]. Not a single line." (TV: The Aztecs, PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)

External links

• Official Weapons Grade Snake Oil page at Obverse Books
• Weapons Grade Snake Oil at the Faction Paradox wiki