The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as "the Laughing Man" swept through the medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, and corporate espionage, leaving no known suspects. New information is revealed to Japan's top homeland security force, drawing Major Kusanagi and Section 9 into the hunt for a suspect capable of hacking the eyes of every operative, obscuring all details of his appearance and leaving behind a trail of copycats and hacked cyborg citzens.
Who is The Laughing Man? What are his motives? And how do you catch a criminal youcannot see? Join the beautiful Cyborg Motoko Kusanagi in a world of high technology and deadly conspiracies as she searches for the answers to these questions and more!
