First sentence:
"Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm."
Description:
"We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition. . .
Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet--a world-renowned 'coolhunter' who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded on the Internet--footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide.
Still haunted by the memory of her missing father--a Cold war security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001--Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing--and compelling--as the twenty-first century promises to be. . ." -- inside the front cover
My thoughts:
This is an interesting book about finding meaning in the real and virtual worlds. Cayce Pollard navigates both worlds as she searches for the creator of a set of digital footage which may or may not be a finite piece of art. I look forward to reading the next book in the series, Spook Country.
Date read: 3/19/2025
Series: Blue Ant, #1
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4*/5
ISBN-10: 0425192938
ISBN-13: 978042519293
Imprint: Berkley Publishing Group
Publisher: Penguin Group
Year: 2004 (this edition)
# of pages: 356
Binding: Trade Paperback
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