"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment
on life in present-day America" (The New York Times), Don
DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and
images, novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the
arch-individualist. At the heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous
reclusive writer who escapes the failed novel he has been working
on for many years and enters the world of political violence, a
nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages locked in basement
rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded: his
brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman
who is Scott's lover--and Bill's.
