Cobweb
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099478850 (0099478854)
Publish date: January 5th 2006
Publisher: Arrow
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Ok, you got me. Red-handed. I surrender. I admit it. I am one of the foreign students that the authors are talking about, who came into this country on the merit of just my brains, who went through the grist mill of a post-graduate program, who found a job below my qualifications, worked at it u...
An under-estimated Iowan deputy Sherrif, a Vakhan Turk terrorist and a junior CIA analyst attempt to save the world from botulism in this heavily satirical thriller. Stephenson's usual jaunts into expositional territory are kept to a minimum and are always relevant which makes this much more taut t...
I believe this was the only novel by Neal Stephenson that I hadn't read, so, in the interest of completism, of course I had to read it.Sadly, I have to admit, it wasn't that good.Being dated was part of it - it's a political thriller, and well, we know know more about Saddam and his alleged WMDs tha...