Deep State by Walter Jon Williams

Deep State by Walter Jon Williams

Dagmar Shaw is one of the world's hottest designers of alternate reality games. She is the Puppetmaster and thousands of gamers are dancing on her strings. But when the campaign she is running in Turkey comes into conflict with the new, brutal regime, she realises that games can have very real consequences. When an old friend approaches Dagmar with a project so insane, so ambitious, she can't possibly say no, she is plunged into a world of spies and soldiers. A nation hangs in the balance and in a world of intrigue and betrayal, the master player must face the possibility that she has, herself, been played. Dagmar is the Puppetmaster, but when the bullets are real and her 'puppets' start dying, is any cause worth it?

Powerful ideas, brilliantly executed. . you should take this as a recommendation * Charles Stross, award-winning author of HALTING STATE *
With admirable topicality, DEEP STATE concerns the fomenting of revolution against an repressive regime using modern networked communications * TELEGRAPH *
A neatly plausible scenario that riffs off recent events in Iran to fine effect as Williams brings an SF sensibility to what's essentially a spy thriller. Recommended. * BBC FOCUS *

Walter Jon Williams is a New York Times bestselling author and multiple Hugo and Nebula Award nominee. He is a black belt in kenpo, an amateur chef and a scuba-diving enthusiast. Walter Jon Williams lives, with his wife, near Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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ISBN 13	9781841498331
ISBN 10	1841498335
Title	Deep State
Author	Walter Jon Williams
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2011-02-03
Number of pages	416
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