Bought this a long time ago, and re-reading it on coming out of the attic. It's a good set of near-future-twenty-years-ago sci-fi thrillers. In some ways it's funny to read now as some tech in it is here and boring now, and some stuff we know is much harder, and yet more bits are politically less palatable. As is the author.

But there's a network of experts that's sort of a secret but most people know about them (like Torchwood) and they all have Ellis' trademark catchy swearing.