Mona's pimp sells her to a plastic surgeon in New York and she's turned overnight into something else. The pimp winds up dead. Mona weeps for him. She's a sweet, dumb girl… so far.
But in the depths of the rustbelt, the ring of steel and garbage and toxic waste surrounding the Sprawl, Gentry is obsessively seeking the darkest secrets of the Matrix. Seeking rapture. So that when an impossibly tall and powerful skyscraper of data appears suddenly in the landscape of the Matrix, Gentry is ready for it…
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