To the point of taking her place in the sims, with only Porphyre the wiser.

Magic Plastic Surgery: Mona undergoes plastic surgery that effectively turns her into a clone of Angie Mitchell.

Sally: (Shakes her head) Your old man, Kumi? He is it.

Embarrassing Nickname: Sally apparently fought in illegal blood matches for a while under the name 'Misty Steele'.

Disposable Sex Worker: Subverted Mona realizes that her captors consider her this, escapes, and winds up playing a significant role in the story.

Camp Gay: Porphyre, Angie's hairdresser, who is no longer on speaking terms with the guy who usually plays her boyfriend.

Kumiko has Petal, Mona has Prior, Angie has Swift.

The Butler Did It: Almost all of the plot threads features a suspicious butler-like figure, who, shockingly, turns out to have shady motives.

Also Little Bird, Slick’s racist comrade.

Asshole Victim: Eddy, Mona’s abusive boyfriend/pimp.

Action Girl: Molly/Sally Shears, as usual.

Mona Lisa Overdrive provides examples of: Characters who return from the first two books include Angie and Bobby Newmark (from Count Zero), Molly from Neuromancer (now called Sally Shears), and the Finn, from both (well, sort of).

Published in 1988, the book switches off between the interwoven stories of four different protagonists, who are each involved in a plot to kidnap famous sim-star Angie Mitchell: Mona, an innocent young prostitute Kumiko, the daughter of a Yakuza businessman, Slick Henry, an ex-convict turned junk artist and Angie herself, who has the unique power to enter the Matrix without a computer. or so they think.Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson is the third novel in the Sprawl Trilogy.

And behind the intrigue lurks the shadowy Yazuka, the powerful Japanese underworld, whose leaders ruthlessly manipulate people and events to suit their own purposes. Now, from inside cyberspace, a kidnapping plot is masterminded by a phantom entity who has plans for Mona, Angie, and all humanity, plans that cannot be controlled. Since childhood, Angie has been able to tap into cyberspace without a computer. Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a murky past and an uncertain future whose life is on a collision course with internationally famous Sense/Net star Angie Mitchell. The Mona Lisa Overdrive.Įnter Gibson's unique world-lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting-where multinational corporations and high tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. William Gibson, author of the extraordinary multiaward-winning novel Neuromancer, has written his most brilliant and thrilling work to date.