Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction.
Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Recruited for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence, Case needs to complete the mission to stay alive. Molly, with mirror-shade implants and razors in her fingertips, riding shotgun, is going to keep him alive... if she can. -- adapted from introduction.