Talking about a future but still mired in the reality of when it was written. I liked how it talked about companies failing, being dissolved, transferring, mirrored by a middle eastern world with its own values, two men with different outlooks, at its center an unidentified woman, likewise, struggling with how to navigate her own world while she is being relentlessly pursued--and the ending, without giving anything away, perfectly punctuates her enigmatic presence throughout the novel. The projections and predictions in this book were based on news reports of the time, extrapolated, strained fact through fiction. one of the main characters, an overworked man tasked with finding the unknown woman, finds a potential way out of his suffering.