Meh I really thought I would like this book. A fiction story about AI, the shared capacities and work of private sector & DoD and technologies’ potential and challenges for military deployment ... all sounded pretty awesome. However, the AI disappears basically at the beginning of the book, leaving behind a conglomeration of characters who the reader never gets to know on a deeper level & who all want to appear super cool and capable but remain unlikable and ineffective. While I usually love multiple story lines, time shifting etc. this book is just confusing as hell and Gibson throws too many words and concepts in there that don’t make much sense - maybe one should have read his earlier book on the topic that supposedly could be viewed as the prequel to “Agency” but not necessarily so. Anyways, I quit halfway through because there are just too many good books out there and sadly for me, this one just didn’t deliver in the way I thought it would. Also, I feel like airport books are just not my type of genre lol.