Release Date: August 7
Author: William Gibson
Publisher: Putnam
Gibson is one of science fiction's reigning visionaries, but as he has gotten older his attention has shifted from the far future (viz. founding cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, which brought us the term "cyberspace") to the present, where Spook Country is set. Your heroine is Hollis Henry, a freelance journalist assigned by a mysterious magazine to write about a reclusive artist who creates hologram installations of historic events. Also involved: art, forgery, drugs, Manhattan, Los Angeles, pirates, the CIA, tramp freighters, weapons of mass destruction, war profiteers, and, of course, massive amounts of both cash and data, which in Gibson's world are often interchangeable.