In a world where powerful transnational corporations have seized control of the information technology market, there is no place for mercy. This truth was well understood by George Carner, head of electronic security at Matsushita Electrics, who was tasked with dealing with the leak of strategic information from the corporation’s server. Nastya, an aspiring St. Petersburg virtual hacker nicknamed Sycamore, did not know this and only miraculously escaped from the monstrous trap set up by Karner. And if not for the mysterious Jack, who exists only in digital space, the girl would have been destined to disappear. However, merciless hounds are already following in her footsteps, accustomed to brutally destroying hackers not in the virtual world, but in the real world...