Georgina Powers is investigating a "phone-phreaking" scam in the gritty East End of London when her contact and boy-toy, Abdul Malik, a top-rank phone phreaker, is found dead at the bottom of a boat. Not only do the police want to nail her, but a Bengali protection gang wants to know what happened to Malik. Georgina calls on an old friend, East End villain and ex-boxer Tony Levi, to help her out-and finds herself in the middle of a gang war in cyberspace and a turf war in real life.