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Author Gibson, William, 1948-

Title Pattern recognition / William Gibson
Published New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2003]
©2003

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Description 356 pages ; 24 cm
Summary "Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive American design consultant with an international reputation. In London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a very different assignment: find the creator of the haunting, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the internet by a party or parties unknown. Followers of this footage, and Cayce herself is one, are generating massive underground buzz, worldwide - and her new employer values buzz infinitely more than money." "But with her London apartment burgled, her email hacked, and the records of her Manhattan therapist stolen, she begins to suspect that more is at stake here, to someone, than she could ever have imagined." "Still, Cayce is her father's daughter. Win Pollard, Cold War security guru, was never a man to be deterred by the unimaginable. But the Cold War is over, and Win is missing, presumed dead, somewhere in Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001."
"Cayce is soon phase-shifting through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, and finally into the eerie aftermath of a Soviet eco-disaster, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing, and compelling, as the twenty-first century promises to be." "A secret that may, ultimately, belong to her alone."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Mystery fiction
Subject Women private investigators -- England -- London.
Business intelligence -- Fiction.
Women private investigators -- England -- London -- Fiction.
SUBJECT London (England) -- Fiction. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106611
Genre/Form Thrillers (Fiction)
Detective and mystery fiction.
LC no. 2002067955
ISBN 0399149864 acid-free paper
0670875619 paperback