Beth Kittridge is hired by Marty Dollar to find a way to make tek non-addictive. Beth soon discovers that he is planning on lacing the music players with the main ingredient in tek so he can sell these players to customers. This would create millions of new addicts and he would be the only supplier.

Jake is enticed by John Grant and his newly formed team known as the "Tek Posse". This is a group of men that operate above the law and have some of the best tools, including a mind prober, which is a prototype. On the first mission, Jake begins to doubt his decision to leave Cosmos.