Spook Country

by WilliamGibson (Author)

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  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.

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  The cool and scary (San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer.
  
  spook (spo ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for intelligence agent.

  country ( kan-tre) 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 (spo ok kan-tre) 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