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Set amid London’s smog‑shrouded streets following the recent money‑crash, William Gibson’s *Zero History* is a tense technothriller that pulls readers into the clandestine world of advertising and corporate espionage.
After losing a fortune in the crash, former rock‑singer Hollis Henry is lured into the orbit of Hubertus Bigend, a sinister Belgian proprietor of the enigmatic ad agency Blue Ant. Alongside him works Milgrim, another character steeped in the agency’s shadowy operations. As the novel unfolds, the patterns of politics, international business, and high‑tech defense contracts emerge, revealing a complex network of power and intrigue that extends beyond London’s city limits.
Gibson uses the backdrop of a post‑crash economy to explore how art, media, and commerce collide in a world where privacy is a commodity and information is currency.
First publish date: 2010
Genre: Suspense/General Suspense
Authors: William Gibson
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