2035.With Dundas reselected in the wake of the Amschel affair, the Prime Minister embarks on a round of domestic and international duties. From Bilderberg to Eckx Island, his trail of high-living debauchery is destined to catch up in the end. Meanwhile, Lord Jonathon Hooper, the Chairman of the All-Party Government, is left to carry out Britain's clandestine role in world affairs, making decisions that Dundas need never know.The MI's continue their role in the implementation of Global ID in Europe with the support of propaganda from a compliant media. Behind the scenes, they also have to exercise damage limitation, following a potentially disastrous leak from Lord Hooper's own office. It means a deadly solution to a perennial problem, and a sinister solution for the singular problem that is the errant Prime Minister.In the empty world of television celebrity, the media continue their promotion of junk culture, keeping a soporific public distracted with a disturbing replacement for the most downloaded mesh on the company Dreemfeelds, Isobel Prine.

At the same time, Max teams up with Bruno inside the Metropolitan and hints at dangerous plans for a revolutionary direction that could end all their careers.