Spook Country

The “cool and scary”( San Francisco Chronicle ) New York Times bestseller from the author of Pattern Recognition and Neuromancer . • spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.” •  country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind. •  spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed, few by choice. The place we are learning to live.