Mona Lisa Overdrive: A Novel [Paperback]

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novelNeuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date . . .The Mona Lisa Overdrive.  

Enter Gibson's unique world—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.  Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.  Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspacewithouta computer.  Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled . . . or even known.  And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes . . . or so they think.William Gibsonis credited with having coined the term cyberspace and having envisioned both the Internet and virtual reality before either existed. He is the author ofNeuromancer, Count Zero,Mona Lisa Overdrive,Burning Chrome,Virtual Light,Idoru,All Tomorrow's Parties,Pattern Recognition,Spook Country,Zero History,Distrust That Particular Flavor, andThe Peripheral. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife.1
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