Tilbury's life has become a puzzle, an enigma, clouded by is past as e is thrown into the world of Al technology, supercomputers and cybercrime, counter intelligence, and is reunited with the newer version of the ithinkPad. The complexity of the darknet and the influence of the 'Chinese way leads him into a different world where all his skills will be tested to the limit as he fights the "Adjustment Directorate and their Al hunter drones.