From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his
latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice
of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow
author J. Frederick George tell a savagely witty, chillingly topical
tale set in the tense moments of the Gulf War.

When a foreign exchange student is found murdered at an Iowa University,
Deputy Sheriff Clyde Banks finds that his investigation extends far
beyond the small college town.all the way to the Middle East. Shady
events at the school reveal that a powerful department is using federal
grant money for highly dubious research. And what it.s producing is
a very nasty bug.

Navigating a plot that leads from his own backyard to Washington, D.C.,
to the Gulf, where his Army Reservist wife has been called to duty, Banks
realizes he may be the only person who can stop the wholesale slaughtering
of thousands of Americans. It.s a lesson in foreign policy he.ll never forget.

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