01-06-2013, 01:19 PM | #1 |
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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 |
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Thanks for the heads up! I almost bought this a couple of days ago. I'm glad I waited.
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01-07-2013, 12:21 PM | #3 |
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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.
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01-07-2013, 03:01 PM | #4 |
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Yeah but, as I have a Kobo, I tend to forget to check Amazon for prices on books I'm interested in.
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