The Long Run

The Long Run is the best known of a small series of books written by Daniel Keys Moran (no relation to either Daniel Keyes or Daniel Moran), a series that is apparently potentially much larger than those few books that have been published, stalled out at The AI War, which has been finished but never published. This book is also notoriously difficult to find, which is a real shame. The story revolves around an ethical thief named Trent, who's also one of the best Players (computer hackers) on Earth and whose past is entangled with telepaths, believed by everyone to have all been killed. While there are cyberpunk elements, I wouldn't say that this is really a cyberpunk novel; it's more of a future adventure novel with a daring and irrepressible hero, set against a beautifully rich background. Once the story gets started, the pace makes it very hard to put down.