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Across the globe millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde and as it rampages through the gaming world spreading from player to player - holding hard drives hostage in the process - the computer of one powerful and dangerous man is infected causing the carefully mediated violence of the on-line world to spill over into reality. A fast-talking internet-addicted mafia accountant is brutally silenced by his Russian employers and Zula - a talented young T'Rain computer programmer - is abducted and bundled on to a private jet. As she is flown across the skies in the company of the terrified boyfriend she broke up with hours before and a brilliant Hungarian hacker who may be her only hope she finds herself sucked into a whirl of Chinese Secret Service agents and gun-toting American Survivalists; the Russian criminal underground and an al-Qaeda cell led by a charismatic Welshman; each a strand of a connected world that devastatingly converges in T'Rain.An inimitable and compelling thriller that careers from British Columbia to South-West China via Russia and the fantasy world of T'Rain Reamde is an irresistible epic from the unique imagination of one of today's most individual writers.
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Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde, and as it rampages through the gaming world spreading from player to player - holding hard drives hostage in the process - the computer of one powerful and dangerous man is infected, causing the carefully mediated violence of the on-line world to spill over into reality. A fast-talking, internet-addicted mafia accountant is brutally silenced by his Russian employers, and Zula - a talented young T'Rain computer programmer - is abducted and bundled on to a private jet. As she is flown across the skies in the company of the terrified boyfriend she broke up with hours before, and a brilliant Hungarian hacker who may be her only hope, she finds herself sucked into a whirl of Chinese Secret Service agents and gun-toting American Survivalists; the Russian criminal underground and an al-Qaeda cell led by a charismatic Welshman; each a strand of a connected world that devastatingly converges in T'Rain. An inimitable and compelling thriller that careers from British Columbia to South-West China via Russia and the fantasy world of T'Rain, Reamde is an irresistible epic from the unique imagination of one of today's most individual writers.
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ASDA
Four times number one New York Times bestseller Neal Stephenson returns with a brilliant and compelling thriller cast in the mould of his cult classic Cryptonomicon. Reamde promises to be his most successful and commercial novel to date.
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The master of speculative fiction returns with a gripping thriller in which conflict in in the cyberworld spills over into the real life.
- 1848874480
- 9781848874480
- Neal Stephenson
- 20 September 2011
- Atlantic Books
- Hardcover (Book)
- 912
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