Amrit Kahn, the down-and-out ex founder of the global social media company ZEN, hacks into the company's banking software and programming ATM's to give away $20 bills to the poor in the San Francisco's Mission District. He discovers that ZEN has a marketing pact with the government to create and maintain 'shadow' profiles on every American citizen and that the president plans to expand the program to blackmail the world's most influential, by ZEN hacking their communications to track their nefarious activities.

The story line includes freelance hackers, Russian lobbyists, assassins, interrogations by Homeland Security, the FBI and Britain's MI6, in Silicon Valley, the Caribbean and the Vatican.  There are no winners.