In an energy-liberated future, Lewis McCrorry probes the invisible event horizon of a mundane micro black hole power source, resulting in a series of unlikely disasters, seemingly aimed directly at him. When he and his long-time friend, synthetic sentient Nikola Tesla, find a disturbing token buried deep within the Neural Sea, his options swiftly collapse. Helpless against a mysteriously cunning foe, he is forced to escape into desperate anonymity, cut off from a familiar world of instant information, and convinced he must unravel the threads of an ever-tightening knot before his own life is deleted.