
Chevette rides as a courier banging her paper laminate-framed bike through the streets of a future ' Frisco
- she lives for it On an impulse she's risked everything; stolen a pair of sunglasses from some jerk No ordinary shades either loaded with super-sensitive data they could decide the destiny of the entire city Rydell is working for Mr Warbaby who has been hired to recover the glasses But Rydell is none too sure that he likes his new employment opportunity; with SFPD Homicide involved an abandoned bridge populated by freaks & misfits & some weirdness involving the Republic of Desire & a ' Death Star' it's turning out to be a very strange & dangerous scene indeed William Gibson author of the classic Neuromancer & creator of cyberpunk here turns his hyper-acute imagination on the near future
- to supercharged nerve-shredding effect