Really well written...
The first of William Gibsons usually futuristic novels to be set in the present, Pattern Recognition is a masterful snapshot of modern consumer culture and hipster esoterica. 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.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0425192938/qid=1108831280/sr=2-1/ref=pd_ka_b_2_1/103-1257897-5459005
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