Neal Stephenson's staggering techno-thriller now in paperback. In 1972 Richard Forthrast fled
the Iowa farm for the mountains of British Columbia to avoid the draft and amassed a fortune
smuggling marijuana across the Canadian border. Parlaying his wealth into an empire Richard
created T'Rain a multibillion-dollar massive multiplayer online role-playing game with
millions of fans around the world. But T'Rain's success has also made it a target: hackers
unleash the virus REAMDE unwittingly triggering a deadly war beyond the boundaries of the
game's virtual universe - and Richard is at ground zero.
