A corporate mercenary who specialises in the extraction of high-value defectors - moving scientists and executives from one megacorporation to another without them being killed in the process. Turner is the protagonist of Count Zero, hired by Hosaka Corporation to extract Maas-Neotek's chief of R&D, a job that goes wrong in ways that expose him to the strange new entities operating in the matrix. He is competent, professional, and emotionally hollowed out by his work - a man whose skills are available to whoever pays. His backstory, including a destroyed relationship and a brother living off the grid, gives him more interiority than the role might suggest.