Zero History - William Gibson

Hollis Henry, former rock singe- turned-journalist, has very reluctantly agreed to work for the secretive Belgian finance genius Hubertus Bigend again--only to find herself entangled in a threatening mesh of postmodern marketing, corrupt American military contractors, and belated romance. nHollis Henry never intended to work for global marketing magnate Hubertus Bigend again. But now she's broke, and Bigend has just the thing to get her back in the game...

n Milgrim can disappear in almost any setting, and his Russian is perfectly idiomatic--so much so that he spoke it with his therapist in the secret Swiss clinic where Bigend paid for him to be cured of his addiction... n n Garreth doesn't owe Bigend a thing. But he does have friends from whom he can call in the kinds of favors powerful people need when things go sideways...

n nThey all have something Bigend wants as he finds himself outmaneuvered and adrift, after a Department of Defense contract for combat-wear turns out to be the gateway drug for arms dealers so shadowy they can out-Bigend Bigend himself. n nZero History is [Gibson's] best yet, a triumph of science fiction as social criticism and adventure.--BoingBoing. netn