With the explosion of technological advances in the last few years, The Net is a story virtually torn from today's headlines. It takes place in a world in which anything, from ordering a pizza to retrieving records from halfway across the world, can be accomplished through the vast and complicated map of phone lines and computer networks known as the Internet; a world in which, with the right knowledge and the right program, a good hacker can log into remote computers and alter any information they choose: flight plans, medical and criminal records, top secret government information, even someone's identity...