Mona lisa overdrive - william gibson

The award-winning William Gibson goes beyond science fiction to the broader mainstream fiction audience.

His unique world features multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vying for power, traveling the computer-generated universe.

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer , has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date .

The Mona Lisa Overdrive .

Enter Gibsons unique world--lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting--where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.

Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell.

Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer.

Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled .

or even known.

And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes .

or so they think.