From a New York Times review: "Four years later, 'Spook Country,' Gibson's first novel since 'Pattern Recognition,' moves farther from science-fiction speculation and immerses itself fully in modernist realism. More than a post-9/11 novel, it is arguably the first example of the post-post-9/11 novel, whose characters are tired of being pushed around by forces larger than they are - bureaucracy, history and, always, technology - and are at long last ready to start pushing back." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/26/books/review/Itzkoff4-t.html?pagewanted=all & _r=0