Pattern Recognition Hardback - 2003
by William Gibson
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Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignmentStill, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.
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- Title Pattern Recognition
- Author William Gibson
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 357
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Publication date 2003
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0399149864I3N00
- ISBN 9780399149863 / 0399149864
- Weight 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
- Dimensions 9.32 x 6.3 x 1.42 in (23.67 x 16.00 x 3.61 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Category Fiction - Mystery/ Detective
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, London (England)
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002067955
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 2
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Summary
One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself. William Gibson's new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.
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