Themes explored include the ubiquity of locative technology, the eversion of cyberspace and the political climate of the United States in the aftermath of the Septemattacks. The plot comprises the intersecting tales of three protagonists: Hollis Henry, a musician-turned-journalist researching a story on locative art Tito, a young Cuban-Chinese operative whose family is on occasion in the employ of a renegade ex-CIA agent and Milgrim, a drug-addled translator held captive by Brown, a strangely authoritarian and secretive man. A political thriller set in contemporary North America, it followed on from the author's previous novel, Pattern Recognition (2003), and was succeeded in 2010 by Zero History, which featured much of the same core cast of characters. Spook Country is a 2007 novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson.
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