By William Gibson
First Published: 1984
Rating: Cultural Masterpiece.
“The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus-hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in cyberspace…”

Henry Dorsett Case was the sharpest data-thief in the business, until he crossed the wrong people–his own employer. They crippled his nervous system with a wartime neurotoxin, keeping him from ever jacking into cyberspace ever again. But now a new and very mysterious employer recruits him for a last-chance run. The target: an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence orbiting Earth in service of the sinister Tessier-Ashpool business clan. With a dead man riding shotgun and Molly, mirror-eyed razorgirl, to watch his back, Case embarks on an adventure that ups the ante on an entire genre of fiction.