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| Book: Hardcover | 9.25 x 6.25in | 384 pages | ISBN 9780399154300 | 07 Aug 2007 | Putnam Adult | Adult |
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Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.
Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to.
Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in nature. At least, Milgrim's very nuanced Russian would seem to be a big part of it, as would breaking into locked rooms.
Bobby Chombo is a "producer," and an enigma. In his day job, Bobby is a troubleshooter for manufacturers of military navigation equipment. He refuses to sleep in the same place twice. He meets no one. Hollis Henry has been told to find him.
Pattern Recognition was a bestseller on every list of every major newspaper in the country, reaching #4 on the New York Times list. It was also a BookSense top ten pick, a WordStock bestseller, a best book of the year for Publishers Weekly, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Economist, and a Washington Post "rave."
Spook Country is the perfect follow-up to Pattern Recognition, which was called by The Washington Post (among many glowing reviews), "One of the first authentic and vital novels of the twenty-first century."
“A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”
—Washington Post Book World
“A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world.”
—Details
“Both cool and scary.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
“Gibson’s work is all edge and chill and incipient panic…His worlds are so striking, so plausible, that you’re just happy to be along for the ride.”
—Chicago Tribune
“A fitful, fast-forward spy tale.”
—USA Today
“The author himself is enthusiastically working his way back from the future.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“[His] complex and riveting new novel, Spook Country, is both entertaining and visionary, solidifying his position as the twenty-first century’s primary literary soothsayer.”
—Vancouver Sun
“A delicious surge of pleasure-center prose.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Never anything less than fascinating.” —Columbus Dispatch
“Gibson takes aim at the BlackBerry era with the excellent Spook Country.”
—Men’s Health
Spook Country is the subject of Mark Steyn's column in Maclean's—October 22, 2007
CBC.CA Arts, profile by Rachel Giese
Globe & Mail, profile
Edmonton Journal, profile
Locus Award - SF Novel: Finalist 2008
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