Bobby, a super-hacker friend of Kidd's, suddenly disappears from cyberspace, and Kidd knows that isn't a good sign. Going over to his house, he finds him dead on the floor, his head bashed in and his laptop missing. The secrets of that laptop are potent enough to hang Kidd and everybody else in Bobby's circle - just to start with - so there's no question that Kidd and LuEllen have to try to track it down. But before he can get very far, the secrets start coming out anyway...and they're more staggering than even Kidd imagined. Because it's not just the lives of a circle of friends and colleagues now - it's about something much, much bigger and scarier...