| Spook Country Contributor(s): Gibson, William (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425221415 ISBN-13: 9780425221419 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2008 Annotation: The latest "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Pattern Recognition" is the story of an investigative journalist who is assigned the task of finding a spook--an intelligence agent who refuses to sleep in the same place twice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Espionage - Fiction | Political - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Blue Ant |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 400 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |