A teenage hacker from the rustbelt who nearly dies on his first serious run into the matrix and is saved by something he cannot explain - one of the new entities that emerged when Wintermute and Neuromancer merged. Bobby is the most ordinary character in Count Zero - not a professional, not a soldier, just a kid who wanted to be good at something - which makes him the reader's guide into a world that has become stranger than anyone realised. His storyline is the most grounded of Count Zero's three threads and the most affecting.