"Brown rented a remarkably ugly and uncomfortable black boat called a Zodiac".[...]
"Cities, in Milgrim's experience, had a way of revealing themselves in the faces of their inhabitants, and particularly on their way to work in the morning. There was a sort of basic fuckedness index to be read, then, in faces that hadn't yet encountered the reality of whatever they were on their way to do."
"Hollis woke on Bigend’s mag-level bed, feeling as though it was the altar atop some Aztec pyramid."
Chapter summaries - may contain plot and character teaser / "spoiler" information, depending on how many reviews you have read so far:
Chapter 59. BLACK ZODIAC
Milgrim notices that Brown, back in his nylon vest, is uncharacteristically chipper [whistling?] as they undock the Black Zodiac [that "reminded him of a creepy folding rubber bathtub"] from the marina and head towards "some kind of floating Cubist sculpture in muted Kandinsky tones." After killing the engine near the M/V Jamaica Star, Brown lights a cigar and remarks, "Look at that son of a bitch," as Milgrim looks on amazed at Brown's "immense and inexplicable satisfaction." [481 characters]
The "M/V Jamaica Star" container ship, is described in one of the extracts which William Gibson published on his blog on 9th September 2006.
Chapter 60. ROLLING THE CODES
Hollis wakes on the "Aztec altar" and walks downstairs where Ollie is waiting with a phone scrambler [Bigend is "increasingly concerned with privacy"]
Privacy and Security are closely related.
and keys to a Phaeton. After Ollie leaves, Bigend calls to tell Hollis that the they had tracked white truck transporting Bobby to where its GPS coordinates stopped in Burnaby near the Canadian border. [351 characters]