For the first time since I was studying George Orwell at school I had
to go back before I'd even finished to give the book a second reading.
Incredibly complex with a fantastic cast of wonderfully diverse
characters, and a plot-line that could only happen in a science fiction
virtual cross-reality.
The protagonist is hired through a chain of mysterious individuals,
with whom he becomes part of a loyal team albeit with a couple of
double-crossers, that has to hack into a rich family's data vaults to
retrieve a physical key and a password. And so begins a rich and complex
adventure which takes place in a bio-upgraded, drug fused real world and
two layers of cyberspace (which this book invented). In the end it turns
out that artificial intelligences created by that family are at odds with
each other, and one of them is the ultimate employer of this eclectic
team, as well as being a great tormentor of them.
Just brilliant, and easily worth another read. |
