Nobody knows where the AI known as NewGeneration came from, but for twenty years its robots have been harmless, and always ready to help. Suddenly they are gone, along with all modern communication. A new AI is launched by the government, Reddex, who is programmed to solve the crisis caused by the failure of the internet. Devlin and Ford have focused their research on the connection between NG, Reddex, and the internet, and manage to find information that was not meant to be found. They will see who can be trusted and who can't, and they will question who is on what side of history.