Neuromante

Case was the best "cowboy" in cyberspace—he made his living stealing information and breaching electronic defenses. But he made the mistake of betraying the wrong people, and as punishment, they damaged his nervous system with a toxin that extinguished his talent, micron by micron. Exiled from cyberspace and trapped within the prison of his own physical body, Case flirts with death in the ultra-technological underworld. That is, until he finds himself drawn into a dangerous scheme with an unknown objective—one that offers him a second chance, and a cure, at a price...