Mona Lisa Overdrive (Sprawl Trilogy Book 3)

The final book in William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy, which began with Neuromancer. The story takes place in the Sprawl, a world where multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws compete for power, with access to cyberspace—a computer-generated universe. Mona is a young girl with a mysterious past whose life intersects with Angie Mitchell, an internationally famous virtual reality star who has had the ability to access cyberspace without a computer since childhood. From within cyberspace, a phantom entity orchestrates a kidnapping plot involving Mona and Angie, with implications for all humanity. The shadowy Yakuza, a powerful Japanese criminal syndicate, manipulates events for their own ends. However, even the Yakuza cannot match the actions of an opaque artificial intelligence whose objectives remain beyond human comprehension.