AT THE DAWN OF THE YEAR 2000...
For seven years, corporations, banks and governments have been working feverishly. Now, time has run out. While panic races around the globe, a few people know what is going to happen and exactly how it will start.
IT'S A BATTLE BETWEEN THOSE WHO CAN SAVE US...
In an old red-brick building on the edge of New York's financial district, a group of elite cyberpunks has been preparing for this day. Backed by young computer engineer Doc Downs, their job is to take over the infrastructure of New York City seconds before it collapses. But even Doc and his team of renegade hackers can't be prepared for the destruction that will strike the entire world on January 1, 2000.
AND THOSE WHO WON'T.
Doc's nemesis, venture capitalist Donald Copeland, has already made millions from Y2K, and now he expects much, much more. But even Copeland's formidable array of Y2K software can't protect him from the debacle that follows in the wake of the millennium bug. Now, the most implacable deadline of all time is aimed like an arrow at the heart of New York City...