Spider King barely knows anything about the mysterious programmer known only as St. Jude, except that she pays well and keeps her cards well-hidden. That's understandable, considering she's hiding from Richard Newbridge, a cold-blooded industrialist bent on killing her for stealing priceless secrets.
Once again, she comes to the Gordian Net for help, but this time, it's a job so dangerous that no amount of money seems enough to take it on. She is asking them to break her father, a top-level computer scientist, out of the most secure prison on the planet.
Are Spider, Nishi, and Elegua in over their heads this time?