
It has been three months since the destruction of the Utopia manuscript, and things have been quiet for Ian, Becky and co. Believing the Network to be finished, they each try to get back to some semblance of normality. But far from being over, the Network are only just beginning...

In 1974, genius Philip Carvel meets an idealistic security services agent, Milner, at a secret forum of political, industrial, financial and academic leaders... by 1979, Carvel's losing his mind.

In the present day, Jessica has been held captive by Milner who has tortured her in a desperate attempt to find out just what adjustment Carvel made to Janus

The gang are on the run and find a precocious young hacker, who uncovers the key to The Network's new plan: a real global outbreak of weaponised Russian flu.

A shocked Dugdale reluctantly agrees to harbour Jessica, but who should be scared of who? When Dugdale visits Jen and Alice in a secret prison it's clear he will do whatever The Network asks.