Neal Stephenson's Reamde Amazon UK £0.99

Patricia1066 · 01-06-2013, 01:19 PM

Reamde

Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde, and as it rampages through the gaming world spreading from player to player - holding hard drives hostage in the process - the computer of one powerful and dangerous man is infected, causing the carefully mediated violence of the on-line world to spill over into reality. A fast-talking, internet-addicted mafia accountant is brutally silenced by his Russian employers, and Zula - a talented young T'Rain computer programmer - is abducted and bundled on to a private jet. As she is flown across the skies in the company of the terrified boyfriend she broke up with hours before, and a brilliant Hungarian hacker who may be her only hope, she finds herself sucked into a whirl of Chinese Secret Service agents and gun-toting American Survivalists; the Russian criminal underground and an al-Qaeda cell led by a charismatic Welshman; each a strand of a connected world that devastatingly converges in T'Rain. An inimitable and compelling thriller that careers from British Columbia to South-West China via Russia and the fantasy world of T'Rain, Reamde is an irresistible epic from the unique imagination of one of today's most individual writers.

ballfresno · 01-07-2013, 09:30 AM

Thanks for the heads up! I almost bought this a couple of days ago. I'm glad I waited.

HarryT · 01-07-2013, 12:21 PM

It's been in Amazon's "12 days of Kindle" sale for about 10 days - it was one of the first books to be added. The sale ends at midnight tonight.

ballfresno · 01-07-2013, 03:01 PM

Yeah but, as I have a Kobo, I tend to forget to check Amazon for prices on books I'm interested in.

01-06-2013, 01:19 PM	#1
Patricia1066 Connoisseur Posts: 78 Karma: 19836 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Bromley, UK Device: Blackberry Playbook, Kindle 3, PRS-300, ipod touch	Neal Stephenson's Reamde Amazon UK £0.99 Reamde Across the globe, millions of computer screens flicker with the artfully coded world of T'Rain - an addictive internet role-playing game of fantasy and adventure. But backstreet hackers in China have just unleashed a contagious virus called Reamde, and as it rampages through the gaming world spreading from player to player - holding hard drives hostage in the process - the computer of one powerful and dangerous man is infected, causing the carefully mediated violence of the on-line world to spill over into reality. A fast-talking, internet-addicted mafia accountant is brutally silenced by his Russian employers, and Zula - a talented young T'Rain computer programmer - is abducted and bundled on to a private jet. As she is flown across the skies in the company of the terrified boyfriend she broke up with hours before, and a brilliant Hungarian hacker who may be her only hope, she finds herself sucked into a whirl of Chinese Secret Service agents and gun-toting American Survivalists; the Russian criminal underground and an al-Qaeda cell led by a charismatic Welshman; each a strand of a connected world that devastatingly converges in T'Rain. An inimitable and compelling thriller that careers from British Columbia to South-West China via Russia and the fantasy world of T'Rain, Reamde is an irresistible epic from the unique imagination of one of today's most individual writers.

01-07-2013, 09:30 AM	#2
ballfresno Connoisseur Posts: 89 Karma: 472786 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: UK Device: Kobo Aura, Kobo Touch	Thanks for the heads up! I almost bought this a couple of days ago. I'm glad I waited. __________________ eric

01-07-2013, 12:21 PM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 54,663 Karma: 26165759 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Touch, PW, Fire HD, iPad 3, iPhone 4, Samsung Tab 2 7 + More	It's been in Amazon's "12 days of Kindle" sale for about 10 days - it was one of the first books to be added. The sale ends at midnight tonight. __________________ Harry Currently proofreading The Poison Belt, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

01-07-2013, 03:01 PM	#4
ballfresno Connoisseur Posts: 89 Karma: 472786 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: UK Device: Kobo Aura, Kobo Touch	Yeah but, as I have a Kobo, I tend to forget to check Amazon for prices on books I'm interested in. __________________ eric

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