59 pages 1 hour read

Neal Stephenson

Snow Crash

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1992

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Chapters 16-30

Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 16 Summary

Raven delivers “a metal briefcase” (95) to the security-conscious Crips. The Japanese rapper Sushi K watches television in the back of a limousine on the way to the concert. He watches a show about a spy trying to infiltrate L. Bob Rife’s Raft. While Sushi K performs, Hiro is summoned to deal with a situation involving Lagos. Hiro discovers that Lagos has been murdered; he suspects Raven.

Chapter 17 Summary

The Nova Sicilia is a franchise of the Mafia in Southern California, owned by Jason Breckinridge. He studied the war between the Colombian gangs and the Mafia in college and was brought into the organization by a recruiter, who allowed him to pick from one of many “opportunity zones” in California. Breckinridge is ordered to deliver documents to a Compton franchise that will be visited by the head of the Mafia, Uncle Enzo. Breckinridge, knowing the importance of this assignment, undertakes the delivery himself.

Chapter 18 Summary

On the way to Compton, Breckinridge passes billboards advertising the Mafia as a family organization. They are competing with Narcolombia, another organized crime group that turned into a private corporation. The Mafia is no longer limited to Italians, and the multiethnic recruitment appeals to Breckinridge.

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