Count Zero - William Gibson

For the first time in trade paperback comes the New York Times bestselling author's second novel, a sophisticated version of the sentient computer (Locus). nWilliam Gibson continues the visionary Sprawl Trilogy that began with Neuromancer in this frighteningly probable parable of the future. nA corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side.

Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D--and the biochip he's perfected--out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom aren't remotely human....n