Reamde Audiobook (Free)
- Malcolm Hillgartner
- 38 h 35 min
- Brilliance Audio
- 2011-09-20
Summary:
In 1972, Richard Forthrast, the dark sheep of the Iowa farming clan, fled to the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft. A skilled hunting guideline, he eventually amassed a fortune by smuggling marijuana across the border between Canada and Idaho. As the years approved, Richard went straight and returned to the States following the U.S. authorities granted amnesty to draft dodgers. He parlayed his wealth into an empire and developed a remote holiday resort in which he lives. He also produced T’Rain, a about Reamde multibillion-dollar, massively multiplayer online role-playing game with an incredible number of fans around the world. But T’Rain’s achievement has also managed to get a target. Hackers possess struck gold by unleashing REAMDE, a trojan that encrypts all of a player’s electronic files and holds them for ransom. They have also unwittingly triggered a deadly battle beyond the boundaries from the game’s virtual world – and Richard is at ground zero. Race around the globe from the Pacific Northwest to China to the wilds of north Idaho and factors among, Reamde is normally a swift-paced thriller that traverses worlds digital and real. Filled up with unpredicted twists and becomes in which unforgettable villains and unlikely heroes encounter off in a battle for survival, it really is an excellent refraction of the twenty-first century, through the global war on terror to social networking, computer hackers to mobsters, business owners to religious fundamentalists. Most importantly, Reamde can be an enthralling individual story – an entertaining and epic page-turner in the outstanding Neal Stephenson.
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