Neuromancer

Case was the hottest computer cowboy cruising the information superhighway jacking his consciousness into cyberspace, soaring through tactile lattices of data and logic, rustling encoded secrets for anyone with the money to buy his skills. Then he double-crossed the wrong people, who caught up with him in a big way-and burned the talent out of his brain, micron by micron. Banished rom cyberspace, trapped in the meat of his physical body, Case courted death in the high-tech underworld. Until a shadowy conspiracy offered him a second chance and a cure for a price....