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.

The Net Force must simultaneously find out who is posting top-secret data on the Internet while tracking a computer virus that is wreaking havoc on the federal financial systems

When a group of terrorists who call themselves "CyberNation," and consider themselves an independent virtual country, seize control of the net and bring down the world's computers, the Net Force springs into action.

Alex Michaels, commander of Net Force, the computer security branch of the FBI, must move fast to head off disaster when top secret weapons information from a joint Air Force-Navy venture is accessed and downloaded by terrorists.

AMore information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

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.