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Spook Country
[Paperback - 2008]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Science Fiction
Additional Category: Thrillers
Publisher: Berkley | ISBN: 9780425221419 | Pages: 400
Shipping Weight: .42 | Dimensions: 6.01 x 1.03 x 8.94 inches

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

William Ford Gibsonis an American-Canadian writer who has been called the father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction, having coined the termcyberspacein 1982 and popularized it in his first novel,Neuromancer(1984), which has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide.While his early writing took the form of short stories, Gibson has since written nine critically acclaimed novels (one in collaboration), contributed articles to several major publications, and has collaborated extensively with performance artists, filmmakers and musicians. His thought has been cited as an influence on science fiction authors, academia, cyberculture, and technology.---------------------------------William Gibson. (2007, October 17). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 20:30, October 19, 2007, fromhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?t...

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