Spook Country
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| Autore: |
Gibson William
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| Titolo: |
Spook Country
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| Pubblicazione: | East Rutherford : , : Penguin Publishing Group, , 2007 |
| ©2007 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (359 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 813.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Intelligence officers--Fiction |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Fiction |
| Journalists | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The "cool and scary"(San Francisco Chronicle) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer.- spook (spook) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for "intelligence agent."- country (kn-tr) 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 (spook kn-tr) 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Spook Country |
| ISBN: | 1-101-14728-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910136701103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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