num_pages: 368
description: Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, she is offered a secret assignment: to investigate some intriguing snippets of video that have been appearing on the Internet. An entire subculture of people is obsessed with these bits of footage, and anybody who can create that kind of brand loyalty would be a gold mine for Cayce's client. But when her borrowed apartment is burgled and her computer hacked, she realizes there's more to this project than she had expected. Still, Cayce is her father's daughter, and the danger makes her stubborn. Win Pollard, ex-security expert, probably ex-CIA, took a taxi in the direction of the World Trade Center on September 11 one year ago, and is presumed dead. Win taught Cayce a bit about the way agents work. She is still numb at his loss, and, as much for him as for any other reason, she refuses to give up this newly weird job, which will take her to Tokyo and on to Russia. With help and betrayal from equally unlikely quarters, Cayce will follow the trail of the mysterious film to its source, and in the process will learn something about her father's life and death.
language: English
title: Pattern Recognition
titlecomplete: Pattern Recognition
characters: Hubertus Bigend, Cayce Pollard
genres: Mystery, Speculative Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction Fantasy, Thriller, Espionage, Literature, Fiction, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk
ratings_count: 50107
places: Moscow, Tokyo, London, England
series: Blue Ant
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best Science Fiction Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Science Fiction Association Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work
publisher: Penguin