Set in a worryingly foreseeable near future, where the gap between rich and poor continues to grow and big business has de facto control over much of the planet, not everything is as it seems after China attempts to steal the prototype of a groundbreaking neural implant.
Humanity and technology are on a collision course, and as killers and thieves chase wetware engineer, Eric Thorne, through both physical and digital worlds, who controls that implant once those realities converge, will be the deciding factor in the evolution of more than one race.