Title:
Virtual Light
Author: William Gibson
Genre: Science Fiction
Comments: It's been some time since I read a William Gibson book. Virtual Light takes a step away from his books like Neuromancer and Count Zero and instead focuses on the people and the society of the future he writes about so often.
In this book, Northern California and Southern California have split into two sister-states, and former Tennessee cop Berry Rydell was dumped by a show he was supposed to appear on and is stuck in the L.A. area without work. He gets a job with a security outfit, gets canned, then gets set up with a freelancer working for the same security outfit in NoCal. Their job, to find a stolen pair of Virtual Light glasses which project data about whatever the wearer is looking at.
Sounds like a simple enough job, until the person the glasses were stolen from turns up dead, his murder is pinned on the thief, and some obviously crooked cops aren't happy to have someone that knows police procedure butting in where he isn't wanted.
I definitely recommend it to William Gibson fans, and science fiction fans in general that are interested in conceptual sci-fi about how society might evolve in the future. Plenty of action for those that like that, too.