Spook Country

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 ( k n-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 (spo ok k n-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