Governments fall, corporations are taken over, gangsters are killed, but no-one messes with the Courier's Guild.

When Armand Pierce joined the Couriers Guild, he accepted responsibility for an attaché case connected to a titanium cuff grafted into the bones of his wrist, and took an oath: the delivery is everything. He can run, fight--kill, if he needs to--but the package gets where it's going. It's the Guild's guarantee, and since the internet went down in the Cyber Wars, all business, legitimate or otherwise, depends on it.

So Pierce knows he's in deep trouble when he arrives in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, to find his payload missing, his case mysteriously empty. Something strange is going on--something that's already cost three couriers their lives--and Pierce had better get to the bottom of it, before the client, or the Guild, catches up to him.