{"product_id":"reamde-paperback","title":"Reamde - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeal Stephenson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stephenson has a once-in-a-generation gift: he makes complex ideas clear, and he makes them funny, heartbreaking, and thrilling.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAnathem\u003c\/em\u003e, Neal Stephenson is continually rocking the literary world with his brazen and brilliant fictional creations--whether he's reimagining the past (The Baroque Cycle), inventing the future (\u003cem\u003eSnow Crash\u003c\/em\u003e), or both (\u003cem\u003eCryptonomicon\u003c\/em\u003e). With \u003cem\u003eReamde\u003c\/em\u003e, this visionary author whose mind-stretching fiction has been enthusiastically compared to the work of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Kurt Vonnegut, and David Foster Wallace--not to mention William Gibson and Michael Crichton--once again blazes new ground with a high-stakes thriller that will enthrall his loyal audience, science and science fiction, and espionage fiction fans equally. The breathtaking tale of a wealthy tech entrepreneur caught in the very real crossfire of his own online fantasy war game, \u003cem\u003eReamde\u003c\/em\u003e is a new high--and a new world--for the remarkable Neal Stephenson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the extraordinary Neal Stephenson comes an epic adventure that spans entire worlds, both real and virtual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, former draft dodger and successful marijuana smuggler Richard Forthrast amassed a small fortune over the years--and then increased it a thousandfold when he created T'Rain. A massive, multibillion-dollar, multiplayer online role-playing game, T'Rain now has millions of obsessed fans from the U.S. to China. But a small group of ingenious Asian hackers has just unleashed Reamde--a virus that encrypts all of a player's electronic files and holds them for ransom--which has unwittingly triggered a war that's creating chaos not only in the virtual universe but in the real one as well. Its repercussions will be felt all around the globe--setting in motion a devastating series of events involving Russian mobsters, computer geeks, secret agents, and Islamic terrorists--with Forthrast standing at ground zero and his loved ones caught in the crossfire.\u003c\/p\u003e--San Francisco Chronicle on REAMDE\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the extraordinary Neal Stephenson comes an epic adventure that spans entire worlds, both real and virtual.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, former draft dodger and successful marijuana smuggler Richard Forthrast amassed a small fortune over the years--and then increased it a thousandfold when he created T'Rain. A massive, multibillion-dollar, multiplayer online role-playing game, T'Rain now has millions of obsessed fans from the U.S. to China. But a small group of ingenious Asian hackers has just unleashed Reamde--a virus that encrypts all of a player's electronic files and holds them for ransom--which has unwittingly triggered a war that's creating chaos not only in the virtual universe but in the real one as well. Its repercussions will be felt all around the globe--setting in motion a devastating series of events involving Russian mobsters, computer geeks, secret agents, and Islamic terrorists--with Forthrast standing at ground zero and his loved ones caught in the crossfire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1056\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.9 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 15, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177457422471,"sku":"9780062191496","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/05e58cbee331b4bf4a853f09fb3f8b53.webp?v=1733397658","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/reamde-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}