I've heard that this is the definitive cyberpunk novel, so I picked it up with my Borders giftcard. Looks excellent. The following was copied from amazon.com:

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway--jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way--and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished from cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance--and a cure--for a price....

Edit 6 Sept 2007: Promised to kittyscastle as soon as I read it.

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This was described to me as the archetypal cyberpunk novel. And perhaps it is. The world was interesting, the characters were dynamic, and the view of the future was familiar yet radically different. However, I had a terrible time following the storyline. I got what happened in a general sense, but there was still some stuff that went over my head. Like what happened to Wintermute at the end. So honestly I'm not sure if I'd recommend this book to anyone else, because I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. Perhaps I should reread it sometime.

Sent this to kittyscastle today.

this one is going be read by my husband and he says thank you for sending it to him. putting at permanent collection in case he decides he wants to keep it.