![]() Zula is swept up in the deadly consequences. He's selling illegal data, but the deal is ruined by a virus that is itself part of a massive and co-ordinated virtual gold heist of unprecedented proportions. ![]() Richard's niece Zula, a smart young woman orphaned by war in Eritrea and subsequently raised with Midwestern sensibilities, falls afoul of her black-hat hacker boyfriend Peter's side business. ![]() Thus it is possible for the story to begin in Iowa at the Forthrast family reunion, seen through the eyes of uncle Richard – former cross-border marijuana smuggler turned founder and CEO of the massively successful T'Rain – then play out simultaneously across the South China Sea and the Pacific Northwest. It's the island city-state attractive to adventurers, people of loose morals and pirates, while still sporting safe suburbs that kids, seniors or the jaw-droppingly naive can visit. The fictional game of T'Rain is their common connection, the sometimes lawless zone just outside traditional and understood norms. ![]() For those new to his novels, they're populated with casts of people who are typically familiar in some faintly archetypal but stereotype-fracturing way. ![]() REAMDE's plot kicks in right away, shortly after hooking readers with Stephenson's uniquely flavoured characters. ![]()
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