Cyberpunk 3+/5
Hiro, a hacker who helped design key environments in the metaverse, uncovers a massive plot and must find allies among a disparate group of corrupt government, Mafia, religious, and commercial movers and shakers to defeat it. I followed this story better than I followed Neuromancer, though it was also extremely dark and convoluted. You have to have a taste for this kind of SF, but I liked it.