He awoke in a body bag, his brain fried, a black hole where his memory should be. If not for the cool carbon-fiber blade concealed in his arm, he would've been dead for sure. But Michael Bishopβa.k.a. Babel, messiah of the Matrixβis back in the game.
Renraku Computer Systems has defied the accords of the Corporate Court. Now they must decipher the secrets of the otakuβand Babel is the technoshaman reborn for the job. But netwalking in the shadows of the electron jungle means an initiation into deadly megacorporate intrigueβand discovering more about Babel's own team than he fears he should know.
As allies become adversaries, Babel breaks through the dreaded black ice security to find a doorway to the futureβand signs of a corp war looming on the horizonβone that could destroy the technoworld and beyond...forever.