#18 in Spy & espionage
Spook Country
- 384
- Pages
- about 7 h
- Reading time
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About the book
Spook Country is a 2007 novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson. 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. 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. 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 September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.3 across 201 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 58% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Spy & espionage average of 7.6. That is how 7.5 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.5 | 26 | 13% |
| Hardcover | 7.3 | 175 | 87% |
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How long is Spook Country?
It has 384 pages — shorter than 65% of the ranked books in Spy & espionage.
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