Mao II

Don DeLillo presents an extraordinary new novel about words and images,novelists and terrorists, the mass mind and the arch-individualist. Atthe heart of the book is Bill Gray, a famous reclusive writer who escapesthe failed novel he has been working on for many years and enters the worldof political violence, a nightscape of Semtex explosives and hostages lockedin basement rooms. Bill's dangerous passage leaves two people stranded:his brilliant, fixated assistant, Scott, and the strange young woman whois Scott's lover - and Bill's.