Turner, a corporate mercenary, wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then, Hosaka Corporation reactivates him for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to extract a defecting chief of R&D and the biochip he's perfected.

This mission proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren't remotely human. Bobby Newmark is entirely human: a rustbelt data-hustler totally unprepared for what comes his way when the defection triggers a war in cyberspace.

With voodoo on the Net and a price on his head, Newmark thinks he's only trying to get out alive. The second novel of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Count Zero is a stylish, streetsmart, and frighteningly probable parable of the future and a sequel to Neuromancer.