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Countdown to the August 7, 2007 release of William Gibson's Spook Country with news, thoughts, serious spoilers and chapter summaries in 807 characters or less.

Tue Aug 7

Chapter 83. STRATHCONA

In a bed-and-breakfast near a deserted Vancouver Chinatown, Milgrim—passing himself off as a traveling scholar writing about “revolutionary messianism” and carrying the cash and phone from Hollis’s purse—takes a Rize, settles back on the pillows, and begins reading his book while thinking of a vaguely familiar-looking woman [Hollis] he’d seen outside a used-record store by St. Mark’s Place. [395 characters]