** spoiler alert **
Cayce Pollard, an external consultant for an advertising agency, is set on the trail of 'The Footage', a remarkably successful internet hype that publishes short, mysterious movies and has followers all over the world.

Cayce gets all the help whenever she needs it and travels several continents in her search for the creators of The Footage. But it is all so easy; she never gets in any kind of trouble and when she almost does, there always happens to be someone around with the necessary skills to help her.

Since everything is so easy, you start to expect some kind of setup, that the whole thing is one big conspiracy and doesn't have to do with The Footage at all. Unfortunately, this is all there is. The book ends with everyone being very nice to each other and Cayce finds the source of the Footage.

William Gibson wrote some fascinating novels that refueled the science fiction genre. But this later novel is just a flawed update of some of his recurring themes, not intriguing at all and lacking the machine gun fluency of his early work.