Skinner - Softcover

Huston, Charlie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316133701 ISBN 13: 9780316133708

Verlag: Little, Brown and Company, 2016

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PRAISE FOR SKINNER AND CHARLIE HUSTON:

"A thriller for the Edward Snowden Summer . . . Mr. Huston is renowned for making the fantastic believable."--Wall Street Journal

"Skinner is of the moment. . . . While Skinner has its share of bone-crunching fight scenes, Huston channeled [his] anger into a book with a highly complex picture of how people live at opposite ends of the economic spectrum."--Los Angeles Times


"Its fluency with both the world of spies and of high technology, like Olen Steinhauer by way of William Gibson, makes it a gripping read, [and] the humanity Skinner finds in himself is genuinely touching."--USA TODAY


"Mind-bendingly original, from the characters, to the dialogue, to the sensory-overloaded world. A tour-de-force. Add Huston to the A-list."--Booklist (starred review)

"Skinner is an up-to-the-second thriller, combining big ideas, gouts of blood and a fascinating mix of damaged characters."--Cleveland Plain-Dealer

Reseña del editor:

Skinner--known by the name of the psychological experiment that fostered his emotionless brutality--founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under Skinner's protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community.

Now, a cyber-terrorist attack on the US power grid is about to end that long exile. His asset is Jae, a roboticist with a gift for seeing the underlying systems violently shaping a new era of global guerrilla warfare.

At the root of is all is a young boy, the innocent seed of a plot grown in the slums of Mumbai. Brought to flower, that plot will tip the balance of world power in a perilous new direction.

A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson techno-philosophy, SKINNER is the triumphant novel that delivers a new kind of thriller for a new kind of world.

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• Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0316133701
• ISBN 13: 9780316133708
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 402