A coolhunter who is physically allergic to branding is hired to track down the source of anonymous film clips being posted online.
The first of his books set in the present, and the argument is that the present had become strange enough that inventing a future was unnecessary. Written just after 2001 and shaped around it without ever announcing so.
Eighteen years after Neuromancer and a far more controlled writer. The sentences do less showing off and more work.
Read April 2005.
