Skinner
By: Charlie Huston
Contributors: 3M Company
Publisher: Little, Brown and Co.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: [Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780316202428; 9780316133708
Subjects: Cyberterrorism; Intelligence officers; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Fiction; United States; Suspense; Thrillers
Description: Skinner founded his career in "asset protection" on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. A savagely effective methodology, until Skinner's CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community. Now, an ornate and evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that long exile. His asset is Jae, a roboticist with a gift for seeing the underlying systems violently shaping a new era of global guerrilla warfare. At the root of it all is a young boy, the innocent seed of a plot grown in the slums of Mumbai. Brought to flower, that plot will tip the balance of world power in a perilous new direction. A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson techno-philosophy from the novelist hailed by the Washington Post as "the voice of twenty-first century crime fiction," SKINNER is Charlie Huston's masterpiece--a new kind of thriller for a new kind of world.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Welcome; Epigraph; PROLOGUE: gravity of the sun; PART ONE; bringer of the ball; patriots; agents of taps; repeat and reinforce; arcade; the bruising world; rubble; oddities; PART TWO; energy; memory; maker; burn him; tide of a beating heart; PART THREE; hammer; remnant of the blade; a robot to make her normal; in the world; austerity measures; gamla stan; pogrom; PART FOUR; diagram; lonely house; when the ash leaves the sky; implications of the gun; cathedral; PART FIVE; politics; inevitable; chemotherapy agents; constantly upon her person; encounter killings; title: A child in his homeafraid to find out; very special education; wonderful scam; horror; EPILOGUES; About the Author; Also by Charlie Huston; Acclaim for ""Skinner; Newsletters; Table of Contents; Copyright