ISBN 0-671-52300-7 (US pbk),,, 0-00-648046-2 (UK pbk)

"Johnny's a slick young twenty-first-century hustler with a lot upstairs -- and all of it's about to blow. A wetwired courier with a 320-gigabyte data-storage chip embedded in his brain, he smuggles information for a living, and he isn't particular where it comes from. But with this latest job, his lucrative memory bank has given way to a major headache. The information he's carrying is hot -- stolen from a powerful company that wants it back in the worst possible way. Data-overload is about to crash him permanently. The download code is missing, his employers are dead, and there's nothing between him and an army of high-tech Yakuza thugs -- nothing but his street-smarts and a beautiful girl with a bad attitude and a hardwired taste for mayhem." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1996]