Pattern Recognition
By William GibsonCayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected.
Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.
Book details
- Hardcover
- 368 pages
- English
- 0399149864
- 9780399149863
About William Gibson
william ford gibson (born march 17, 1948) is an american-canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science ficti Read More about William Gibson
More Books By William Gibson
People who bought this also bought
The Art of Being Alone: Solitude Is My HOME, Loneliness Was My Cage
New Book
Mego Action Figure Toys: With Values (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Used Book
Get Over It!: Thought Therapy for Healing the Hard Stuff by Iyanla Vanzant
New Book
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
New Book
The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
Used Book
Scale: Seven Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back
Used Book
The Daily Stoic : 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
New Book
Husbands, Wives, and Lovers: The Emotional System of the Extramarital Affair
Used Book
The Kabul Beauty School : An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil by Deborah Roriguez
New Book
Gothic Arches, Latin Crosses : Anti-Catholicism and American Church Designs in the Nineteenth Century
Used Book
The Parent's Guide to Food Allergies: Clear and Complete Advice from the Experts on Raising Your Food-Allergic Child
Used Book