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Mona Lisa Overdrive | Characters

Mona Lisa Overdrive contains a large cast of colorful characters, some of whom appeared in earlier Gibson novels. Within each of the four converging plots, one or two characters assume dominance. The first major character to be introduced is Kumiko Yanaka, the young teenage daughter of a Yakuza oyabun who sends her to London for safekeeping. Kumiko is one of the youngest major characters Gibson has created. She is initiated into the evils and deceptions of the world by Sally Shears, aka Molly, the razor-girl of Neuromancer (1984). Sally takes an almost maternal...

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