The book that started it all...

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick awards...

(from the back of the back, copyright 1986 Ace Books)
"Case was the sharpest data thief in the Matrix, until an ex-employer crippled his nervous system. Now a new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run against an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a mirror-eyed girl street-samurai riding shotgun, he's ready for the silicon-quick, bleakly prophetic adventure that upped the ante on an entire genre of fiction."