It is 2010 and the internet has become, in effect, the world's central nervous system. If terrorists are going to subvert the new world order, this is where they will strike. A new organisation is therefore needed to deter them — Net Force, a team of highly trained operatives whose homeground is the
Virtual Reality world of the Net, with the Net Force Strike Teams at the ready to take the battle inte the real world with their own devastating firepower.

But when a top-level assassination rocks Net Force it may be the first sign that they have met their match. Brilliant programmer and political mastermind Viadimir Plekhanov has devised a scheme to bring chaos to the Net — and attain untold power. And with the aid of shape-changing assassin calling herself the Selkie, he could destroy Net Force at the same time.