Spook Country

Spook Country is a 2007 novel by William Gibson. Gibson announced the book on October 6, 2006 on his blog, where fragments of the novel were posted non-sequentially for some time, leading to much speculation on the content and plot of the novel. Spook Country is set in February 2006, and is a continuation of his previous novel, Pattern Recognition. In an interview with PC Magazine in February 2006, Gibson declared that the book was set " 'in the ... more

Spook Country is a 2007 novel by William Gibson. Gibson announced the book on October 6, 2006 on his blog, where fragments of the novel were posted non-sequentially for some time, leading to much speculation on the content and plot of the novel. Spook Country is set in February 2006, and is a continuation of his previous novel, Pattern Recognition. In an interview with PC Magazine in February 2006, Gibson declared that the book was set " 'in the same universe,' as they say, as Pattern Recognition. Which is more or less the one we live in now." Spook Country was nominated for a Locus Award in 2008. Hollis Henry – Former member of the early-nineties cult band The Curfew, now a freelance journalist assigned by the nascent magazine Node to write a story about the use of locative technology in the art world. Tito – Part of a Chinese Cuban family of freelance spies and associated support personnel, assigned by his uncles to hand over a series of iPods to a mysterious old man. Adept in a... less