William Gibson explores themes of surveillance, intelligence and security in his current novel, which also contains a strand on locative art, a practice that uses GPS, wi-fi etc (nice essay with lots of refs), in the case of the artists in the book to superimpose anomalous objects (such as crosses commemorating soldiers killed in Iraq) in material places (the urban landscape of LA)… In the novel the technical skills that allow the art to be produced are also useful to actors working within or with links to the covert world: spies, criminals, bankers and a character readers will know from Gibson’s previous book, Pattern Recognition (discussion), of which Spook Country is a continuation  |  blog on Spook Country by London based author  |

other WoT-related novels…  The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid; Surveillance by Jonathan Raban, excerpt from Chapter One here ; Saturday by Ian McEwan;