Pattern Recognition
Author: William Gibson
'Part-detective story, part-cultural snapshot . . . all bound by Gibson's pin-sharp prose'
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Cayce Pollard has been flown to London. She's a 'coolhunter' - her services for hire to global corporations desperate for certainty in a capricious and uncertain world. Now she's been offered a special project: track down the makers of the addictive online film that's lighting up the 'net. Hunting the source will take her to Tokyo and Moscow and put her in the sights of Japanese computer crazies and Russian Mafia men. She's up against those who want to control the film, to own it - who figure breaking the law is just another business strategy. The kind of people who relish turning the hunter into the hunted . . .
'Dangerously hip. Its dialogue and characterization will amaze you. A wonderfully detailed, reckless journey of espionage and lies'
USA Today
'A compelling, humane story with a sympathetic heroine searching for meaning and consolation in a post-everything world'
Daily Telegraph
'Electric, profound. Gibson's descriptions of Tokyo, Russia and London are surreally spot-on'
Financial Times









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