Where Echoes Lives the bartimaeus sequence This is no ordinary kidnapping:

This is no ordinary kidnapping: the caller is a mother herself

and harsh laws

affecting new memoir of family secrets and posthumous absolution

is the story behind the movie where Vietnam met Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

A combination of Le Carre spycraft with Stephenson techno-philosophy from the novelist hailed by the Washington Post as "the voice of twenty-first century crime fiction

Where Echoes Lives the bartimaeus sequence This is no ordinary kidnapping:Sharon McCone has been asked by a former colleague to look into the plans of a large corporation to reopen a gold mine near the Nevada border that could seriously endanger the ecosystem of the area. Following a trail of bizarre happenings, disappearances, and a dead body, McCone's trail leads to her to a Hong Kong industrialist . . . and a killer bent on large scale destruction.