He wants nothing more than to live in solitude and work on creating his art (giant killer robots).

The final thread follows Slick Henry, a reclusive artist living in an empty factory in a poisoned section of land in New Jersey. She ends up teaming up with Sally Shears (who is actually Molly from Neuromancer) and gets drawn into the celebrity abduction plot. In London, the people her father is using to mind her end up having their own suspicious agendas, which she picks up on almost immediately. At the beginning of the novel, her father sends her to London to shield her from a situation going on in Japan. The plot to abduct her forms one of the major plot points of the novel.Īnother thread follows Kumiko, the daughter of a Yakuza boss. She still has the ability to jack into Cyberspace at will and this ability has allowed her to communicate with the Voodoo gods living in the Net periodically over the years. She is the same Angie from Count Zero, and in the eight years since the end of that novel, she has become the world's biggest actress.

Speaking of Angie Mitchell, another of the threads follows her. Her boyfriend/pimp draws her into the main narrative by involving her in a plot to abduct Angie Mitchell, the celebrity she resembles. One thread follows Mona, a teenage prostitute that bears a striking resemblance to a famous celebrity. Having this many perspectives going on at once makes the story messy and difficult to explain, but I will do my best to summarize. All four threads take place 8 years after the events of Count Zero, in Gibson's futuristic, cyberpunk world. Instead of three stories, however, this time we have four. Much like the second book in the series, Mona Lisa Overdrive follows several separate story threads that come together in the end of the novel. I was a bit disappointed with how Count Zero felt very unrelated to Neuromancer, so I was very interested to see what, if anything, Mona Lisa Overdrive would do to connect those stories. I started my reading very curious to see where the plot would go next.

I read Neuromancer and Count Zero last month, and enjoyed them both enough to keep going with the series. Mona Lisa Overdrive is the third book in the Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson.

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