In the weeks after the Quorum event, the general public begin to be assimilated into the Global Identification program. At the same time, the Metropolitan News Media sees an opportunity to rebuild its public image and present the human face of Global ID with a new populist presenter.Isobel Prine is plucked from the obscurity of the news floor to front a simplistic promotional vehicle for the Metropolitan, but soon her doubts about the integrity of the Metropolitan's mission are brought to the fore. Looking out from the inside, she sees that reality is seldom how it is portrayed on the television.Caught up in a powerplay between the City of London Corporation and Zura Aerospace, one of its partners in the European Trading Initiative, Prine gets ever closer to identifying the true seat of power and becoming a victim in an internecine war.F.