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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. With voodoo gods in the Net and angels in the software, he can only hope that the megacorps and the super-rich have their virtual hands too full to notice the amateur hacker with the black market kit trying desperately to stay alive. Count Zero is a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the designer's defection triggers war in cyberspace.

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. 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. They set a Slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the colour of his hair. “Unforgettable.the richness of Gibson’s world is incredible.Paperback. one of the most unusual and involving narratives to be read in many an artificially induced blue moon.”- London Times Neuromancer sings to us as a collage of voices, a mixed chorus, some trustworthy and others malicious, some piped through masks.”-James Gleick Gibson has that in common with Le Guin and with J. “In with the ruthless violence, the hyperreality, the betrayal and death, is an unquenchable love of language. “A revolutionary novel.”- Publishers Weekly

“Epic in scale.shimmers like chrome in a desert sun.”- The Wall Street Journal “Science fiction of exceptional texture and vision.Gibson opens up a new genre, with a finely crafted grittiness.”- San Francisco Chronicle “Kaleidoscopic, picaresque, flashy, decadent.an amazing virtuoso performance.”- The Washington Post “Freshly imagined, compellingly detailed, and chilling in its implications.”- The New York Times