Bobby “Count Zero” Newmark is a ‘wannabe’ Cowboy, new to the game and easy prey for the testing of new software, which almost costs him his life. Fearing for his safety Bobby flees to Two-a-Day who rented him the software, who in turn introduces him to the ‘loa’ Lucas who obtained the software from ‘The Wig’, who is currently in orbit on the spindle that belonged to Tessier Ashpool (introduced to us in Neuromancer). Bobby is taken to The Sprawl for his safety and to find out about the voodoo and angels now emerging and creating a change in the matrix.
Maas Biolabs head designer is planning to defect to Hosaka and Turner is engaged to make the extraction, but when the plane lands, it contains the designer’s daughter Angela Mitchell, who can enter the matrix without ‘jacking in’. The extraction team is vaporourised so Turner takes Angela Mitchell to the safety of The Sprawl where she meets with Bobby and the realization that it was she who was the angel in the software that saved him.
Marly, a disgraced art director is hired by the very wealthy but dying Virek, to find the creator of rare and curious boxes, the purchase of a forgery of one of these boxes had instigated her downfall. Marly’s ex Husband Alain blackmails her in exchange for a clue to who this person is but Alain is murdered. Her search takes her to The Wig and the surprise revelation of who/what the Box Maker really is.
Three very intriguing storylines that eventually intertwine, however I felt that the Marly storyline was really a short story that had just been slotted in to expand the novel.
This is the second book in the Sprawl Series.
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