ZodiacThe second novel from the “hottest science fiction writer in America” and New York Times–bestselling author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon (Details). Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat and prefers Jolt from the can to Scotch on the rocks. He knows about chemical sludge the way he knows about evil—all too intimately. And the toxic trail he follows leads to some high and foul places. Before long Taylor’s house is bombed, his every move followed, he’s adopted by reservation Indians, moves onto the FBI’s most wanted list, makes up with his girlfriend, and plays a starring role in the near-assassination of a presidential candidate. Closing the case with the aid of his burnout roommate, his tofu-eating comrades, three major networks, and a range of unconventional weaponry, Sangamon Taylor pulls off the most startling caper in Boston Harbor since the Tea Party. “[Stephenson] captures the nuance and the rhythm of the new world so perfectly that one almost thinks that it is already here.” —The Washington Post |
Contents
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Section 2 | 39 |
Section 3 | 48 |
Section 4 | 55 |
Section 5 | 62 |
Section 6 | 76 |
Section 7 | 84 |
Section 8 | 92 |
Section 13 | 147 |
Section 14 | 153 |
Section 15 | 161 |
Section 16 | 173 |
Section 17 | 187 |
Section 18 | 205 |
Section 19 | 212 |
Section 20 | 218 |
Section 9 | 109 |
Section 10 | 115 |
Section 11 | 127 |
Section 12 | 139 |
Section 21 | 227 |
Section 22 | 234 |
Section 23 | 241 |
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