Book description
Spook Country - a gripping spy thriller by William Gibson,
bestselling author of Neuromancer
'Among our most fascinating novelists ... unmissable' Daily Telegraph
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
'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 has sold more than
six million copies worldwide. In an earlier story he had invented the
term 'cyberspace'; a concept he developed in the novel, creating an
iconography for the Information Age long before the invention of the
Internet. The book won three major literary prizes. He has since
written nine further novels including Count Zero; Mona Lisa
Overdrive; The Difference Engine; Virtual Light; Idoru; All
Tomorrow's Parties; Pattern Recognition; Spook Country and most
recently Zero History. He is also the author of Distrust
That Particular Flavor, a collection of non-fiction writing.
William Gibson is the award-winning author of
Pattern Recognition
,
Neuromancer
,
Count Zero
,
Mona Lisa Overdrive
,
The Difference Engine
,
Virtual Light
,
Idoru
and
All Tomorrow s Parties
. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.
