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Zero History

By Gibson, William
Zero History
Hollis Henry, former rock singe- turned-journalist, has very reluctantly agreed to work for the secretive Belgian finance genius Hubertus Bigend again--only to find herself entangled in a threatening mesh of postmodern marketing, corrupt American military contractors, and belated romance.

Details

Authors: Gibson, William
Copyright: 2010
Format: Paperback
GTIN13: 9780425240779
ISBN10: 0425240770
Page Count: 432
Dimensions: 6.05x0.9x8.91
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Strand Notes

“ZERO HISTORY offers up a modern-day Rome whose denizens are shopping online while the global financial crisis burns away at its center…For those who glory n the circuitous patois of Gibsonian dialogue, the electrical noir of the book’s locales and the Machiavellian menace of Hubertus Bigend, this world’s worrying puppet master, the plunge down the rabbit hole is just as dizzying…Gibson touches on so many contemporary phenomena that it’s often easy to feel lost among the semiotics alchemy and Mobius-strip-storytelling that riddles the novel.” 404p.

Description

Hollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she's broke, and Bigend has just the thing to get her back in the game...

Milgrim can disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic--so much so that he spoke it with his therapist in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of his addiction...

Garreth doesn't owe Bigend a thing. But he does have friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors powerful people need when things go sideways...

They all have something Bigend wants as he finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift, after a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy they can out-Bigend Bigend himself.

"Zero History is Gibson's] best yet, a triumph of science fiction as social criticism and adventure."--BoingBoing.net

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