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Surveillance
Overview
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Bad Land comes a novel that is "as atmospheric with vague menace as a Hitchcock thriller" (The New York Review of Books).
In the not-too-distant future, no one trusts anyone and everyone is watching everybody else. America is obsessed with information and under siege from an insidious enemy: paranoia. National identity cards are mandatory, terrorism alerts are a daily event, and privacy is laid bare on the Internet. For a freelance journalist, her daughter, a bestselling author, and a struggling actor, these tumultuous times provide the backdrop as their lives become inextricably bound in a darkly humorous, frighteningly accurate story of life in an unstable world.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781400033652
- ISBN-10: 1400033659
- Publisher: Vintage
- Publish Date: February 2008
- Dimensions: 8.06 x 5.28 x 0.59 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 272
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