By the year 2011 Het Force has faced a daunting array of challenges as the focus of world terrorism shifts to the internet and the dangerous, seductive world of virtual reality.
But even Net Force may be powerless to combat the latest threat to world security. A top-secret joint Air Force and Navy research project has been compromised - and the evidence points to the Chinese. Could the theft be connected to the incident of mass psychosis in a Cldnue village? And if so, why would the Chinese beusing this terrifying new technology on their own people? Net Force must find the answers, or an unimaginable catastrophe could be unleashed.