 Late at night Amanda witnesses on-line on  Joannecam  the star stab-murder by a masked man who looks straight into the web-cam. Soon she finds herself the victim of such computer-engineered incidents as cancellation of her credit card for fictitious arrears and doctored traffic lights making her cause a car-crash. Jesse s cyber-café-friends track his computer down, but the  stalker  anticipated that: it s the site of another stab-murder which he s showing on the web, as it turns out his sixth yet but not his last. Catching him will take superior sleuthing and hacking...