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?