In the late 21st Century there are two Londons, Old London and New London. Kyle Devos is in trouble in both...
The second Great Recession of the 21st Century killed off the government. Spiralling public debt crippled it. Taxes were slashed repeatedly in a vain attempt to appeal to voters until, with no funds, the government had no authority and no power. Now most laws have been repealed or ignored, and the only authority is that of pure, unrestrained capitalism. The corporations rule supreme with their own currencies, own private security firms and own codes of conduct.
Someone's stolen some files from the Endeavour Business Partnership. This wouldn't concern Kyle Devos, a sixteen year-old wireboy who makes his living stealing copper from abandoned buildings, except that a wounded man has thrust the device containing them into his hands. Then members of the Blue Water Security firm came around the corner and killed all his crew, and would have killed him too if the leader of a rival gang hadn't acted to save her own neck and inadvertently saved his as well. Now he's on the run through both Londons with a girl called Jolena he doesn't know and certainly doesn't trust, trying to find a way to avoid being killed for something he hasn't even read...