Summary
In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guide, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. Parlaying his wealth into an empire, Richard developed a remote resort in which he lives; he also created T’Rain, a multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with millions of fans around the world. But T’Rain’s succe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848874510 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1848874510 |
| Author: | Neal Stephenson |
| Publisher: | Atlantic Books |
| Imprint: | Atlantic Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1056 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2012 |
| Weight: | 713g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 48mm |
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Fantastic * Sunday Times *Like Stephenson’s most critically acclaimed novel, Cryptonomicon, Reamde combines meticulous observation of the stranger socio-economic effects wrought by technology with rousing fusillade adventure… Outrageously entertaining… a joyride * Guardian *Sometimes when you’re reading Neal Stephenson, he doesn’t just seem like one of the best novelists writing in English right now; he seems like the only one * Time *
About The Author
Neal Stephenson
Neal Stephenson is the author of eight novels, including the cult successes Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon. He has been shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award six times, winning with Quicksilver. Four of his last five novels have been number one New York Times bestsellers. He lives in Seattle.
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