Book guide
Count Zero
A doomed hacker, a corporate mercenary and a girl wired for cyberspace collide in Gibson’s neon maze of power and AI.
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About Count Zero
They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair. When the Maas Biolabs and Hosaka zaibatsus fight it out for world domination, computer cowboys like Turner and 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, and 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.
Reading signals
- Spice
- None
- Darkness
- Dark
- Pacing
- Slow
Series
Sprawl trilogy · Book 2 of 3
Content warnings
- gun violence
- violence
- medical trauma
- murder
- injury detail
- medical content
- death
- suicide
- alcoholism
- drug use
- gore
- blood
- sexual content
- substance use
- mental health
