Corrales leads her to Bobby Chombo, an expert in geospatial technologies who handles Corrales' technical requirements. Helped by curator Odile Richard she investigates Los Angeles artist Alberto Corrales, who recreates virtually the deaths of celebrities such as River Phoenix. She is hired by advertising mogul Hubertus Bigend to write a story for his nascent magazine Node (described as a European Wired) about the use of locative technology in the art world. The first strand of the novel follows Hollis Henry, a former member of the early 1990s cult band The Curfew and a freelance journalist. Political climate of the post 911 world.William gibson reads from his new novel spook country.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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