Pattern Recognition

Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows the implications of a secret as disturbing - and compelling - as the twenty-first century promises to be "Elegant, entrancing Cayce's globe-trotting gives Pattern Recognition its exultant, James Bond-ish edge" The New York Times "Gibson's usual themes are still intact - globalism, constant surveillance, paranoia, and pattern recognition - only with the added presence of real-world elements" Booklist. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded on the Internet - footage that is generating massive underground buzz worldwide. Still haunted by the memory of her missing father - a Cold War security guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001 - Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point where the three converge

--Jeremy Pugh. Her hobby and work collide when a megalomaniac client hires her to track down whoever is behind the footage. Set in London, Tokyo, and Moscow, Pattern Recognition takes the reader on a tour of a global village inhabited by power-hungry marketeers, industrial saboteurs, high-end hackers, Russian mob bosses, Internet fan-boys, techno archeologists, washed-out spies, cultural documentarians, and our heroine Cayce Pollard--a soothsaying "cool hunter" with an allergy to brand names. Although he forgoes his usual future-think tactics, this is very much a William Gibson novel, more so for fans who realize that G

Gibson's best. Wait, no, maybe I'm wrong. How could this be better than Count Zero? Maybe not. Better than Neromancer? Could that be? So his work is really hard to rate or compare, but Pattern Recognition, in what seems to be a trilogy of sorts, is stupendous and wonderful.Characters are deliciously drawn. The mystery unravels at a pace that is pitch perfect. The sadness and strange sub. Unexpected storyline. Very Engaging cassady Coming off of two previous dystopian future/bio tech laden Gibson novels, I guess I expected this to follow suit. Not the case. I purchased it off title alone and didn't read a synopsis before diving right in. Totally loved it. Multi faceted mystery novel.Gibson's writing style for this is a bit jarring at first, but once I adjusted it flowed quite nicely. The main charact. Slow but rewarding Pattern Recognition is Gibson's most "literary" book. Character development is at his greatest point, and the story line is both subtle and engaging. Cayce's journey takes her around the world physically, while leading her through a more complex journey of emotional growth. She begins the book with the mindset and worldview of a child -- the world is about me -- but ends w