Stro brilliantly captures theintricacies of a hyper-connected, digitally enhanced future where deviceslike augmented reality specs blend seamlessly with mobile networks, makingdigital crime a normally present threat.
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In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are
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