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Double thumbs up for The World without Us and Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games - two fantastic books.
William Gibson's Spook Country was a great read in 2007. It's a punky tip of the hat to the joys and wonder of globalization, technology and the Pacific Northwest. The heroine is a fascinating character - a semi-notable singer from a decent flash-in-the-pan 90s guitar band who now, years later, has to work for a living. She's a champ as she's thrust into a whirlwind of cutting edge art, misbehaving anti-terror agents and beautiful, racially ambiguous cold war-era spies.
I couldn't put this one down - I read it through in hardly more than a sitting or two.
