Overview

The dim lights fill the room with a dull, eerie glow, and in the midst of the paperwork-filled chaos sits one man. His eyes riveted to two computer screens simultaneously, a cold emotionless expression fills his tired caffeine-fueled face. Pizza boxes and bacterially active coffee cups litter his New York apartment

His life, though, is not lived in this chaotic physical world. No, his life is hidden, hidden amidst an Internet-based labyrinth that evolves around shady dealings with dodgy contacts, large powerful Italian families, and some of the largest Internet-based scum. These are his colleagues, his friends.

Once a highly paid computer programmer, Paul (known to most as Dex) moved to the underground world when he was laid off three years ago in the dot-com downfall. Since then he has made a living doing almost anything illegal, unethical, or immoral.

He has grown to become a very selfish and unrelenting thief, caring only about profit, gain, and survival. For the last three years he has managed to pay bills by breaking as many laws as possible. It started with selling stolen Intellectual property to the highest bidder, mostly software source code and customer information databases. This soon grew to social security numbers, bank account details, and eventually identities. Once a respectful citizen of society, Dex now feels uncomfortable when asked what he does for a living, a slight glint of remorse now and then for the people he has hurt along the way.

But...