Big If
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Big If (2002) is Mark Costello's novel about risk, fear and protection in late-1990s America. Vi Asplund is a Secret Service agent on the detail guarding a vice president through a presidential campaign, while her brother Jens writes code for a violent online game called Big If. Their stories open onto the strange intimacy of people paid to imagine every threat, on the trail and on the screen.
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