A stylish, streetsmart, frighteningly probable parable of the future from the New York Times bestselling author of Neuromancer. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one hes recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D--and the biochip hes perfected--out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties--some of whom arent remotely human...