Spook Country by William Gibson

Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)

by William Gibson

'Among our most fascinating novelists ... unmissable' Daily Telegraph

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THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE BLUE ANT TRILIOGY - READ PATTERN RECOGNITION AND ZERO HISTORY FOR MORE

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 Tito's movements are being tracked. 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 . . .

A gripping spy thriller by William Gibson, bestselling author of Neuromancer. Part prophesy, part satire, Spook Country skewers the absurdity of modern life with the lightest and most engaging of touches. Readers of Neal Stephenson, Ray Bradbury and Iain M. Banks won't be able to put this book down.

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'A cool, sophisticated thriller' Financial Times

'Superb, brilliant. A compulsive and deeply intelligent literary thriller' New Statesman

'A neat, up-to-the-minute spy thriller' Metro


Neuromancer
has sold more than 6.5 million copies worldwide since publication, Guardian, July 2014

Reviewed by empressbrooke on

3 of 5 stars

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After the spectacular [b:Pattern Recognition|22320|Pattern Recognition|William Gibson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167348713s/22320.jpg|2455062], Gibson returns to his normal fuzzy ways and once again seems to write the same book he'd already written a half-dozen times prior to this. Three narratives once again unspool alongside each other until they converge in the end, where they finally arrive at a McGuffin (this time, a mysterious shipping crate). The purpose of the McGuffin is vague, of course, although it did seem a little more relevant to the themes of the book than the glasses in [b:Virtual Light|22326|Virtual Light (Bridge Trilogy, #1)|William Gibson|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167348715s/22326.jpg|953941] did.

I suppose I wouldn't keep reading if I didn't like Gibson's business-as-usual, but it would be nice to see him mix it up a little more like he did with Pattern Recognition (which, let's face it, wasn't THAT different from his previous books, but a little variety seems to go a long way here).

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