They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi slotted it to his pheromones & the colour of his hair When the Maas Biolabs & Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination computer cowboys like Turner & Count Zero are just foot soldiers in the great game useful but ultimately expendable When Turner wakes up in Mexico
- in a new body with a beautiful woman beside him
- his corporate masters let him recuperate for a while then reactivate his memory for a mission even more dangerous than the one that nearly killed him the head designer from Maas Biolabs says he wants to defect to Hosaka & it's Turner's job to deliver him safely Count Zero is a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the designer's defection triggers war in cyberspace With voodoo gods in the Net & angels in the software he can only hope that the megacorps & the super-rich have their virtual hands too full to notice the amateur hacker with the black market kit trying desperately to stay alive