About the Book
British Science Fiction Association nominee 2004, Arthur C. Clarke Award nominee 2004.
Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research
consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to
investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing
on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these
bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty
would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed
apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more
to this project than she had expected.
Still, 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.
”PATTERN RECOGNITION is William Gibson's best book since he rewrote all the rules in NEUROMANCER. Gibson casts a master extrapolator's eye on our present, and shows it to us as if for the first time.” – Neil Gaiman
