# Spook Country - Paperback

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by **William Gibson** (Author)

**The "cool and scary"(_San Francisco Chronicle_) _New York Times_ bestseller from the author of _Pattern Recognition_ and _Neuromancer_.  
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_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_**

### Author Biography

**William Gibson**'s first novel, _Neuromancer_, won the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Nebula Award in 1984. He is also the _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Count Zero_, _Mona Lisa Overdrive_, _Burning Chrome_, _Virtual Light_, _Idoru_, _All Tomorrow's Parties_, _Pattern Recognition_, _Spook Country_, _Zero History_, _Distrust That Particular Flavor_, and _The Peripheral_. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.

**Number of Pages:** 400

**Dimensions:** 1 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN

**Publication Date:** June 03, 2008

## Details

- **Price:** 31.0 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Espionage, Fiction, Hard Science Fiction, Political, Price Written on Book, Science Fiction, Thrillers

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