The accolades and acclaim are endless for William Gibson's
coast-to-coast best seller. Set in the post-9/11 present, Pattern
Recognition is the story of one woman's never-ending search for the
now....
Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet - a world-renowned "coolhunter"
who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the
redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different
assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being
uploaded to the Internet - footage that is generating massive
underground buzz worldwide.
Still haunted by the memory of her missing father - a Cold War security
guru who disappeared in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September
11, 2001 - Cayce is soon traveling through parallel universes of
marketing, globalization, and terror, heading always for the still point
where the three converge. From London to Tokyo to Moscow, she follows
the implications of a secret as disturbing - and compelling - as the
21st century promises to be....