It is 2011 and the Internet has become the world's central nervous system. If terrorists are going to subvert the new world order, this is where they will strike. When a top-secret cargo train carrying materials for Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme is destroyed by mercenaries, it becomes just the first in a series of incidents in which supposedly bullet-proof encrypted information is stolen and deciphered. Someone, it seems, has got hold of a functioning quantum computer - a computer so powerful it has the potential to develop a consciousness - and is using it to cause global mayhem. If Net Force can not track the perpetrator down, his demented scheme could re-draw the map of the world forever ...