In Arizona Turner, an expert in industrial espionage, is arranging the defection of Mitchell, developer of biochips in Belgium a disgraced art gallery owner, Marly, has been hired to track down the creator of some art objects and in the urban squalor of Barrytown Bobby Newmark, alias Count Zero, would-be hotshot computer jockey, is inexplicably saved from death These three stories weave together in an extraordinary way