Spook Country: A biting, hilarious satire from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Neuromancer (Blue Ant) - Softcover

Gibson, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241953545 ISBN 13: 9780241953549

Publisher: Penguin, 2011

Synopsis

Spook Country - a gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer

What happens when old spies come out to play one last game?

In New York a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's movements. Meanwhile in LA, journalist Hollis Henry is on the trail of Bobby Chombo, who appears to know too much about military systems for his own good. With Bobby missing and the trail cold, Hollis digs deeper and is drawn into the final moves of a chilling game played out by men with old scores to settle . . .

'A cool, sophisticated thriller' Financial Times

'Among our most fascinating novelists ... unmissable' Daily Telegraph

'I'd call the book brilliant and original if only I were certain I understood it' Literary Review

'Superb, brilliant. A compulsive and deeply intelligent literary thriller' New Statesman

'A neat, up-to-the-minute spy thriller' Metro

William Gibson is a prophet and a satirist, a black comedian and an outstanding architect of cool. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks will love this book. Spook Country is the second novel in the Blue Ant trilogy - read Pattern Recognition and Zero History for more.

William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed his first trilogy. He has since written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels include Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History. His non-fiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor, compiles assorted writings and journalism from across his career. His most recent novel is The Peripheral.

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Review:

aA puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.a
a"LOS ANGELES TIMES"
aA devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.a
a"WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD"
aAll edge and chill and incipient panic.a
a"CHICAGO TRIBUNE"
aWILLIAM GIBSON HAS DONE IT AGAIN... Spook Country is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first centuryas primary literary soothsayer.a
a"VANCOUVER SUN"

A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.
"LOS ANGELES TIMES"
A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.
"WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD"
All edge and chill and incipient panic.
"CHICAGO TRIBUNE"
WILLIAM GIBSON HAS DONE IT AGAIN... Spook Country is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first century s primary literary soothsayer.
"VANCOUVER SUN"

?A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.?
?"LOS ANGELES TIMES"

?A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.?
?"WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD"

?All edge and chill and incipient panic.?
?"CHICAGO TRIBUNE"

?WILLIAM GIBSON HAS DONE IT AGAIN... Spook Country is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first century's primary literary soothsayer.?
?"VANCOUVER SUN"
"A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes."--Los Angeles Times
"Arguably the first example of the post-post-9/11 novel, whose characters are tired of being pushed around by forces larger than they are--bureaucracy, history and, always, technology--and are at long last ready to start pushing back."--The New York Times Book Review
"Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world."--Details
"[A] dazed, mournful quality...[An] evocation of post-9/11 displacement, the sense of a world in which nothing seems fixed or reassuring...one of our vital novelists."--Newsday
"Although wearing the trappings of a thriller, Spook Country is essentially a comedy, albeit a dry, dark, and disturbing one."--San Francisco Chronicle

"A fitful, fast-forward spy tale...It's to Gibson's credit that he weaves his strands of disparate narrators, protagonists and foils, and his panoply of far-forward technology, into a vivid, suspenseful and ultimately coherent tale."--USA Today

"Part thriller, part spy novel, part speculative fiction, Gibson's provocative work is like nothing you have ever read before."--Library Journal
"Set in the same high-tech present day as Pattern Recognition, Gibson's fine ninth novel offers startling insights into our paranoid and often fragmented postmodern world....Compelling characters and crisp action sequences, plus the author's trademark metaphoric language, help make this one of Gibson's best."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Gibson excels as usual in creating an off-kilter atmosphere of vague menace."--Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

William Gibson's first novel Neuromancer sold more than six million copies worldwide. Count Zero and Mona Lisa Overdrive completed his first trilogy. He has since written six further novels, moving gradually away from science fiction and futuristic work, instead writing about the strange contemporary world we inhabit. His most recent novels include Pattern Recognition, Spook Country and Zero History. His non-fiction collection, Distrust That Particular Flavor, compiles assorted writings and journalism from across his career. His most recent novel is The Peripheral.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0241953545
• ISBN 13: 9780241953549
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384