Virtual light. Book 3

Welcome to the alternative America of the two thousandths — a world that has survived a great earthquake, global pandemics, and redrawing of the political map; in a reality where the rich can build themselves new cities, and the poor inhabit the ruined bridge between San Francisco and Oakland, creating a semi-anarchic state with its own laws. Former provincial cop and failed security guard Barry Rydell receives a task from his new employer to return the glasses impulsively picked up by Bridge resident, bicycle courier Chevette Washington. A number of victims are chasing after the inconspicuous at first glance, albeit an expensive accessory, and the search brings Rydell into contact not only with mercenary cops and hired killers, but also with hackers, a sect of tele-Jesus witnesses and lawyers from a police show. The first novel in the Bridge Trilogy explores human survival in a new millennium, where technology, media and information have fundamentally changed the way we think about ourselves, with William Gibson's characteristic insight and irony.