Spook Country

No cover

William Gibson: Spook Country (2007, Penguin Publishing Group)

English language

Published Nov. 20, 2007 by Penguin Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-1-4295-5073-4
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

4 stars (3 reviews)

Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer.Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine called Node. Node doesn't exist yet, which is fine; she's used to that. But it seems to be actively blocking the kind of buzz that magazines normally cultivate before they start up. Really actively blocking it. It's odd, even a little scary, if Hollis lets herself think about it much. Which she doesn't; she can't afford to.Milgrim is a junkie. A high-end junkie, hooked on prescription antianxiety drugs. Milgrim figures he wouldn't survive twenty-four hours if Brown, the mystery man who saved him from a misunderstanding with his dealer, ever stopped supplying those little bubble packs. What exactly Brown is up to Milgrim can't say, but it seems to be military in …

15 editions

Subjects

  • Fiction, thrillers, espionage
  • Fiction, suspense