[Sprawl 03] • Mona Lisa S'éclate

William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel

_Neuromancer_ , has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date...

_The Mona Lisa Overdrive_. Enter Gibson's unique world - lyric and mechanical,

erotic and violent, sobering and exciting - where multinational corporations

and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated

universe known as cyberspace. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a

murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with

internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. Since childhood, Angie

has been able to tap into cyberspace _without_ a computer. Now, from inside

cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has

plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled... or

even known. And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yakuza, the powerful

Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to

suit their own purposes... or so they think.