{"product_id":"spook-country-isbn-9780425221419","title":"Spook Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe “cool and scary”(\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller from the author of \u003ci\u003ePattern Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003espook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Hollis Henry is a journalist, on investigative assignment for a magazine called \u003ci\u003eNode\u003c\/i\u003e, 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“A devastatingly precise reflection of the American zeitgeist.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A puzzle palace of bewitching proportions and stubborn echoes.”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Like Pynchon and DeLillo, Gibson excels at pinpointing the hidden forces that shape our world.”—\u003ci\u003eDetails\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[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.”—\u003ci\u003eNewsday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Although wearing the trappings of a thriller, \u003ci\u003eSpook Country\u003c\/i\u003e is essentially a comedy, albeit a dry, dark, and disturbing one.”—\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.”—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Part thriller, part spy novel, part speculative fiction, Gibson’s provocative work is like nothing you have ever read before.”—\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Set in the same high-tech present day as \u003ci\u003ePattern Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Gibson excels as usual in creating an off-kilter atmosphere of vague menace.”—\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Gibson\u003c\/b\u003e’s first novel, \u003ci\u003eNeuromancer\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Nebula Award in 1984. He is also the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCount Zero\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMona Lisa Overdrive\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Burning Chrome\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVirtual Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIdoru\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll Tomorrow’s Parties\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Pattern Recognition\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpook Country\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eZero History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDistrust That Particular Flavor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Peripheral\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.","brand":"Berkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304111296741,"sku":"NP9780425221419","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780425221419.jpg?v=1767737115","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/spook-country-isbn-9780425221419","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}