Somebody is hacking into the World Bank. Nations previously refused loans suddenly receive credit from the Bank to carry out their various projects. The hacker demands a fairer more ethical financial system based on fractal science and vows to keep handing out windfalls to poor nations until the Bank takes him seriously. With a CIA agent in tow Alex has to re-engage with the hackers world of secrecy, paranoia, aggressiveness and fear. To find the World Bank hacker Alex has to deal with AKA, a paranoid, aggressive, survivalist hacker, the Anaki guru from back in the day. A monetary deal is struck between the hacker and the bank. But before AKA can deliver the goods on the World Bank hacker he disappears, as does the money from his account. Alex figures when he tracks down the World Bank hacker he will also find the bank's missing money. Before he has chance to catch the hacker the FBI take over the case and he finds himself accused of taking the money.