another trip to the Sprawl and a worthy sequel to "Neuromancer"...

short plot description: set a couple of years after the events of "Neuromancer" we follow three seemingly unrelated plots. Turner is a mercenary whose speciality is assisting key employees leaving their employers. He is hired to get the scientist Mitchell away from his current employer but the attempt fails and Turner finds himself on the run with Mitchell's daughter Angela.
Bobby Newmark aka Count Zero is a wannabe console cowboy who gets duped into testing an experimental software which nearly kills him but gets saved by a near impossible event and in turn finds himself involved in dealings more wild than he ever imagined.
Marly Krushkova is an ex gallery owner down on her luck who gets hired by an incredible rich industrial magnat to find the unknown maker of Cornell-style art pieces. But the more she finds out about the pieces in question the more she questions her employers motives.

my thoughts: very good continuation of the Sprawl-series. The three parallel plots actually read like a series of short stories which might put some people off but is quite intriguing. The characters are interesting and are well developed. The setting is the same as in Neuromancer.

my advice: can be read stand-alone but should be read in sequence which means go with Neuromancer first.