Weapons Grade Snake Oil (novel)

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

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
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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

Worldbuilding

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

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)