In the Southern megacity of Carthage, a young man's childhood best friend vanishes into a secret network of clinical trials run by mega-corporations. Rawls can't find any information about her on public sites. But the net goes deeper than the public sites. The corps made the net for two reasons: profit and control. Everyone else does their best to survive according to its rules. Some people know how to exploit those rules. Those people are known as runners. Rawls will be one of them. Maybe the best there ever was. New chapters are released daily for the first two weeks, and afer that on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.