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REAMDE
USA $35.00
“For all of his achievements, Neal Stephenson's
most impressive may be his ability to attract a
following equal parts hacker and literati. . . .
It's not just that his prose is smooth and often
witty or that his intelligence is wide-ranging
and speculative, but that he wrestles with con¬
cepts ... in ways that would shame most 'literary'
novelists." —Los Angeles Times
author of the #1
New York Times bestseller Anathem, returns to the terrain
of his groundbreaking novels Snow Crash, The Diamond
Age, and Cryptonomicon to deliver a high-intensity, high-
stakes, action-packed adventure thriller in which a tech
entrepreneur gets caught in the very real crossfire of
his own online war game.
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. As the years passed,
Richard went straight and returned to the States after
the U.S. government granted amnesty to draft dodgers.
He parlayed his wealth into an empire and 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 success has also made it a target.
Hackers have struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a
virus that encrypts all of a player’s electronic files and
holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly
triggered a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the
game’s virtual universe—and Richard is at ground zero.
Racing around the globe from the Pacific Northwest
to China to the wilds of northern Idaho and points in
between, Reamde is a swift-paced thriller that traverses
worlds virtual and real. Filled with unexpected twists
and turns in which unforgettable villains and unlikely
heroes face off in a battle for survival, it is a brilliant
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R E A M D E
ALSO BY NEAL STEPHENSON
Anathem
The System of the World
The Confusion
Quicksilver
Cryptonomicon
The Diamond Age
Snow Crash
Zodiac
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WILLIAM MORROW
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FIRST EDITION
Designed by Lisa Stokes
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Stephenson, Neal.
Reamde / Neal Stephenson. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-197796-1
1. Computer games—Fiction. 2. Virtual reality—Fiction. 3. Money laundering—
Fiction. I. Title.
PS3569.T3868R43 2011
813'.54—dc22
2011020573
ISBN 978-0-06-210642-1 (international edition)
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