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The Zenith Angle, futurist Bruce Sterling's first novel since Zeitgeist, tells the story of Derek "Van" Vandeveer. As the story opens, Van sits peacefully at his breakfast table enjoying life as a new homeowner and happily married man, with a new son and a fortune in stock options. Then the morning news reports a jetliner has crashed in nearby Manhattan--colliding with the World Trade Centre. Like many other Americans' lives, Van's will never be the same. He leaves his corporate job to work fighting terrorism for the US government. He soon finds himself sequestered at a top-secret undisclosed location while his fortune vanishes, his former company sinks into a morass of lawsuits and arrests, and his wife and son move to the far side of the country. As Van is transformed from cyber-whiz to spook, he finds himself changing in ways he would never have imagined. --Cynthia Ward, Amazon.com

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   14 of 14 people found the following review helpful: Dry satire or dissapointing thriller?, 28 Mar 2005 By  Michael Owen (London) - See all my reviews    I've struggled to describe why I don't like this book, and the best way I can describe it is to say that this book is like "Stephen King meets sci-fi." The writing is weak, and the characters are shallow. What I found particularly grating was the definite shift from the author's previous works with their vaguely counterculture characters to the straightlaced, flag salutin' ones of Zenith Angle. Here we have a "geek" who basically drops all his interest in cool technologies to become a fed, because by golly, it's the right thing to do. Hello, Tom Clancy. If it had contained more humour, or been somewhat worse, I would have called it failed satire. As it is, it's simply an ordeal to read. It should have been released straight to pulp paperback with a cover showing the main character holding a baby with a rippling American flag in the background.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   7 of 7 people found the following review helpful: Pointless, dumb plot with a few geek references thrown in., 24 Aug 2005 By  K. Hartnett (London, UK) - See all my reviews    This review is from: The Zenith Angle (Mass Market Paperback) I was very disapppointed by this book - as a bit of a geek myself, I figured I was right in the target audience for this tale of geek heroics, but frankly it never really took off and towards the end just collapsed completely with all sorts of crap about turning spam emails into lasers and the like. I guess that was meant to be funny, but it was really just dumb.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 2 customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews