{"product_id":"9780547798004","title":"Turing's Delirium: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet in a near-future Bolivia, this “hybrid of cyberpunk and political thrillers [is] sleek, brisk, and clever” (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set against a backdrop of advancing globalization, this award-winning, “fast-paced” literary thriller puts a cutting-edge digital spin on the age-old fight between the oppressed and the oppressor (\u003ci\u003eThe Miami Herald\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The South American town of Río Fugitivo is on the verge of a social revolution—not a revolution of strikes and street riots, but a war waged electronically, in which computer viruses are the weapons and hackers the revolutionaries. In this war of information, the lives of a variety of characters become entangled: Kandinsky, the mythic leader of a group of hackers fighting the government and transnational companies; Albert, the founder of the Black Chamber, a state security firm charged with deciphering the secret codes used in the information war; and Miguel “Turing” Sáenz, the Black Chamber’s most famous codebreaker, who begins to suspect his work is not as innocent as he once supposed.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e All converge to create a “propulsive” novel about personal responsibility and complicity in a world defined by the ever-increasing gulfs between the global and the local, government and society, the virtual and the real (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review). \u003ci\u003eTuring’s Delirium\u003c\/i\u003e “combines the excitement of a political thriller with the intellectual ambition of a literary novel” (\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “If William Gibson were a Bolivian, this might be the kind of novel he’d be writing.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47172437246192,"sku":"9780547798004","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547798004_p0.jpg?v=1769896535","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547798004","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}