Amazon has his proposal to the publisher up online:

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/books/promos/WG_Proposal._V32619082_.pdf

>> Behind this narrative, or rather offshore of it, moves a
single large and blankly enigmatic object: a shipping
container. Its contents left Baghdad in the month after the
Americans took the city, and it has become a rectangular,
numerically-coded Flying Dutchman, amid the millions of its
identical kind at sea, perpetually adrift in a
deliberately-generated Sargasso of red tape and botched
shipping instructions. It’s been around the world several
times now. <<

I really liked Pattern Recognition -- pretty cool.  Going to add this to my wishlist.

I would love something as good as Pattern Recognition. The last cycle or series or whatever was booring.