Surveillance Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Surveillance Book

In the not-too-distant future, national identity cards are mandatory, and America has become obsessed with intelligence-gathering. The governmentâ??s scrutiny is omnipresent, civilians freely indulge their curiosity on the Internet, journalists pursue their investigations with relentless determination, and children both snoop on their parents and manipulate new technologies.In Seattle, the unfulfilled actor Tad Zachary now performs mostly in the Department of Homeland Securityâ??s fictional disaster scenarios, while his friend and neighbor Lucy Bengstrom struggles to support her eleven-year-old daughter, Alida, on a freelance journalistâ??s meager incomeâ??with their landlord providing additional threats. Then Lucy is assigned to write a profile of August Vanags, a retired professor turned best-selling author with his memoir of a childhood ravaged by World War II, but the validity of his account grows questionable, even as Lucy and Alida are charmed by both Vanags and his lonesome wife.Everyone here is under surveillance or conducting it, and at risk of confusing what might be true for what actually isâ??a distinction not easily honored in a time of personal stress and widespread panic, when terrorist attack and literary fraud lurk around every corner. With precision and compassion, Jonathan Raban captures not only a peculiar period in our ongoing history but also a rich variety of lives caught up in fault lines that reach throughout society.Read More

from£16.93 | RRP: £15.57
* Excludes Voucher Code Discount Also available Used from £8.47
  • 0375422447
  • 9780375422447
  • Jonathan Raban
  • 16 January 2007
  • Pantheon Books
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. If you click through any of the links below and make a purchase we may earn a small commission (at no extra cost to you). Click here to learn more.

Would you like your name to appear with the review?

We will post your book review within a day or so as long as it meets our guidelines and terms and conditions. All reviews submitted become the licensed property of www.find-book.co.uk as written in our terms and conditions. None of your personal details will be passed on to any other third party.

All form fields are required.