Rainbow's End

I read it in May so I didn't immediately notice the connection but
the book starts at a sporting event in Germany.

The hero of the first chapter is a spy, like James Bond or John
Drake, except that he's German. He's got computers, he's
tapping phone lines, he's got a camera in every cobblestone.
Even so, he can't stop someone who wants to go postal from
getting a nuke. The ordinary people are probably well behaved.

The year is 2024 and there are three superpowers. Oceania,
Eurasia, and Eastasia? Sort of. Eurasia is now the Indo-Euro
Union, it's also got India and Japan as axial members and new
members like Indonesia.

The government is suspicious because there was a candy bar
commercial that gave people the munchies. Herr Spy discovers
that the people who were affected were infected with a genetically
tailored virus. What's more, the virus can be used to turn people
on to something.

The first chapter introduces two new spymasters and what seems
to be an anonymous young hacker. Vaz, the India spy, is the
dude who commissioned the virus, we know but the other dudes
don't. The other two spies drop out for the rest of the book. Vaz
and Rabbit, the hacker, are in it but we don't usually see their
viewpoints. It would be a problem to write them intellegently.

If this was a cyberpunk book, it would start with three rich people,
and Rabbit would be a street kid from Albania or something, and
he'd get messed up in the end. Instead, he's Wintermute.

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