Created by Tom Clancy and Steve Pieczenik, the Net Force Explorers continue their fight against high-tech crime. In this installment, Explorer Andy Moore is enlisted to program virtual animals for the Cservanka Brothers Circus. But underneath the big top, a dark side emerges. And the only thing Andy finds in the cyber-circus is a black market ring -- in high tech weapons software and hardware.

Net Force Explorer Charlie Davis is worried about his friend Rick, who has been hanging out at a punk rock/morbo site called Deathworld, a place rumored to be responsible for a couple of suicides. Charlie decides to visit the place undercover. What he finds may kill him.

A top secret Pentagon wargame has been hacked, and only Net Force has the expertise to track down the culprit. But, when the investigation becomes too big for even Net Force to handle, they must work in cooperation with Cybernation, who have opposed Net Force in the past.

When a top-secret cargo train carrying materials for a nuclear weapons programme is destroyed, it's the first incident in which information is stolen and deciphered. If Net-Force don't track the perpetrator down, it could re-draw the map of the world.

Set in 2010, this first book in a new series tells the story of highly trained operatives who patrol the Internet.

The Net Force Explorers are shocked. Their commander, James Winters, is being accused of murder. To prove his innocence, they have to delve into his past as a Net Force agent--to the tragic circumstances surrounding the death of his wife four years earlier. The Explorers must use all resources to sift out the truth from the lies.