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Spook Country
Spook Country
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The "cool and scary"(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer.
spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for "intelligence agent." country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn't exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... "A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist."--The Washington Post Book World
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 06/03/2008
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780425221419
ISBN10: 0425221415
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Hard Science Fiction
spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for "intelligence agent." country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live. Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called Node, which doesn't exist yet. Bobby Chombo apparently does exist, as a producer. But in his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. And Hollis Henry has been told to find him... "A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist."--The Washington Post Book World
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 06/03/2008
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780425221419
ISBN10: 0425221415
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Thrillers | Espionage
- Fiction | Political
- Fiction | Science Fiction | Hard Science Fiction
About the Author
William Gibson's first novel, Neuromancer, won the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Nebula Award in 1984. He is also the New York Times bestselling author of Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Burning Chrome, Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow's Parties, Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History, Distrust That Particular Flavor, and The Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.
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