![]() ![]() A group of Chinese "gold farmers" is holding the data for ransom and won't release the key until a player enters Corporation 9592's immersive online game T'Rain at a certain set of coordinates and leaves a payment behind. Unfortunately, the drive is also infected with an encryption virus that makes the data inaccessible. ![]() Without Zula's knowledge, Peter has boosted a thumb drive full of stolen credit card numbers and customers' personal data. It isn't until they reach Seattle and angry members of the Russian mob show up at Peter's apartment that she has an inkling of just how much trouble they are in. On her way home from a stay at her uncle's ski resort in British Columbia, Zula notices that something is up with her boyfriend, Peter. "Reamde" focuses on two members of the remarkable Forthrast clan: Richard, the young dope smuggler turned middle-aged gaming multimillionaire, and his adopted niece, Zula, a native of Eritrea "plucked by a church mission from a refugee camp in the Sudan" and now a valued employee of Richard's company, Corporation 9592. ![]() ![]() That is, of course, if a 1,000-page adventure novel about online gaming and jihadist terrorism can be likened to a scoop of mango sorbet. Having spent the past decade producing a three-volume historical novel revolving around the invention of the calculus and a massive first-contact science fiction novel about the Many Worlds Hypothesis, Neal Stephenson now delivers a palate cleanser just in time for the 10th anniversary of 9/11. ![]()
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