Zodiac

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Open Road + Grove/Atlantic, Dec 1, 2007 - Fiction - 320 pages
The 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

Section 1
1
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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Neal Stephenson is the author of the bestselling Baroque Cycle (Quicksilver, The Confusion, and The System of the World), as well as the novels Cryptonomicon, The Diamond Age, Snow Crash, and Zodiac.

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