abstract:Spook Country is a 2007 novel by speculative fiction author William Gibson. A political thriller set in contemporary North America, it followed on from the author's previous novel, Pattern Recognition (2003), and was succeeded in 2010 by Zero History, which featured much of its core cast of characters.
Policy makers recoil from radical solutions to problems of burdensome debt and bloated banks because they worry about setting precedents in one country that could spook investors in another.
Many of the companies represented in her delegation have plants and factories in the frontier provinces on the Afghan border, a part of the country that might spook American investors.