Andrew Redsten tries to stay as inconspicuous as possible because hates dealing with other people. Unfortunately for him, he has to act like an absolute gentleman in public whilst obtaining information for his one joy in life: info brokering. Life as an info-broker never gets boring; there's always some new piece of information to sell. With so many connections, he doesn't realise how tangled he is in the lives of the people of his city until events start to hit much closer to home.