It is 2011 and the Internet has become the world's central nervous system. If terrorists are going to subuert the new world order, this is where they will strilke. Anew 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 tade the battle into the real world with their own davastating firepower.
When a top-secret cargo train carrying materials for Pakistan'a nuclear weapons programme is destroyed by mercenaries, It's just the first of a series of incidents in which supposedly bullet-proof encrvpted 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 don't track the perpetrator down, his demented scheme could re-draw the map of the world forever….