When a series of high-profile cybercrimes rock Neo-Tokyo Prime, data heists that leave victims brain-dead, their neural implants fried, cybernetically-enhanced detective Kain Vex is pulled out of hiding.
Teaming up with hacker Rin and the remnants of the Ghost Circuit, he uncovers a conspiracy linking corrupt law enforcement to Echelon Corporation's new AI project: SHROUD, a neural weapon that doesn’t just erase data… it erases minds.

As Kain’s own augments glitch with haunting echoes of AURORA’s code, he must infiltrate a black-site lab to stop SHROUD’s activation, before he becomes either its final victim, or its unwilling herald.