Publisher's Synopsis
NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center is designing a probe which will be dropped into the Kraken Mare, one of the methane seas of Titan. There, it will embark on a journey of exploration. As the probe is being tested at Goddard, things go awry, and an explosion kills seven scientists. The AI program in the probe, a powerful, self-modifying AI called Dorothy, flees into the Internet. Series character Wyman Ford is tapped by the presidents science advisor to track down the software with the help of Dorothys creator, Melissa Veld.