Pattern recognition
[a novel]
Readers rate it 3.8 (367 on Hardcover)
367 pages · Released 2005 · Berkley Books
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Pattern Recognition is a sophisticated adult thriller centered on marketing, technology, and international intrigue rather than action or violence. The protagonist is intelligent and driven, but the novel relies heavily on complex corporate and tech-world references, adult emotional themes, and occasional drug use that make it unsuitable for younger teens. While not graphically violent or sexually explicit, the mature themes and dense prose style are best suited for readers with some literary experience and emotional maturity.
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One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterio... One of the most influential and imaginative writers of the past twenty years turns his attention to London - with dazzling results.Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'. Cayce becomes involved with an eccentric hacker, a vengeful ad executive, a defrocked mathematician, a Tokyo Otaku-coven known as Eye of the Dragon and, eventually, the elusive 'Kubrick' himself. William Gibson's new novel is about the eternal mystery of London, the coolest sneakers in the world, and life in (the former) USSR.
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- Literature
- Women private investigators in fiction
- Women private investigators
- Fiction
- Business intelligence
- Business intelligence in fiction
- Fiction, suspense
- Fiction, thrillers
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- London (england), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Fiction, thrillers, general
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ISBN 9780425198681 · Berkley Books