A jobless agoraphobe, addicted to the man-made worlds of a distant descendant of the internet, has become targeted for assassination by forces beyond her understanding. With nobody she could really call an enemy or a friend, she must face the dangers of "meatspace", and survive a conspiracy that has invisibly ruled her entire life. An agent of the city's all-seeing secret police finds himself blackmailed with the lives of the unborn children of his long-dead wife. Pushed to the limits by his deceit and his past, how far is he willing to go to save his legacy? Follow their lives as a string of catastrophes threatens not only themselves, but everything they think they know about the city!
A failed air-freight firm that collapsed in the economic turmoil following India's war with China, Xanadu was recently bought up by an unknown party, and has resumed its operations on a limited scale...