The final novel brings the threads of the trilogy together across four storylines set eight years after Count Zero. Angie Mitchell, the woman who can jack into cyberspace without hardware, has become a Sense/Net simstim star whose dreams are being manipulated. Mona is a young woman from the streets who is being surgically altered to look like Angie for reasons she doesn't understand. Sloane is a crime lord's daughter sent to London for safety who arrives into danger instead. And Kumiko, a Yakuza boss's daughter, navigates London's criminal underworld with a ghost for a guide. Molly returns. The matrix itself is approaching something that may be a threshold. Gibson closes the trilogy on its own terms - not triumphantly, but with the particular melancholy of a world that keeps moving regardless.
