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Violence
A lot
Thriller violence: pursuit, assault, and confrontation throughout
Language
Some
Moderate language; noir California register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult relationship; nothing explicit
Substance Use
Barely any
Moderate social drinking; drug culture in the margins
Emotional Intensity
Some
Data as power, what people live in when civilization's infrastructure fails, a woman with something the powerful want
What this book is about
Near-future San Francisco, where the Bay Bridge has been colonized by squatters after the earthquake. Chevette Washington is a bike messenger who steals a pair of VR glasses from a man at a party — glasses that contain something powerful enough that armed men are sent to retrieve them. Berry Rydell is a former cop turned private security who's sent to find her. Gibson's Bridge trilogy opener is a punkish urban thriller about data, power, and the cities of the very near future.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
sustained action violence
drug culture and crime in near-future California
bridge squatter community as setting
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