New Rose Hotel by William Gibson

Two shadowy corporate operatives carry out a delicate scheme to spirit a prized researcher away from one megacorporation and install her with a rival client, using seduction, deception and careful logistics; as the plan unravels through betrayal, shifting loyalties and the intractable power of corporate interests, the protagonists confront the moral and physical costs of their trade in a terse, noir-inflected near-future world where technology, capitalism and personal fragility collide.