They can break any code and get inside any system. They are often still in their teens and already under surveillance by the authorities. They are the hackers. Zero cool real name Dade Murphy is a legend among his peers. In 1988 he single-handedly crashed 1,507 computers on Wall Street and was forbidden by law to touch another keyboard until his 18th birthday. Its been seven years without a byte...and hes hungry.
Kate Libby, handle Acid Burns, has a souped-up laptop that can do 0 to 60 on the infobahn in a nanosecond. When the two collide, the battle of the sexes goes into hard drive. But all bets are off when master hacker The Plague frames Dade, Kate and their friends in a diabolical industrial conspiracy. Now they are the only ones who can prevent a catastrophe... unlike any the world had ever seen.
