sentences:  These initial segments track the bank robbery and mystery man, Nigel MacDonald, who is revealed as a shadow identity created from Jack Reed's credentials as a programmer and gamer.Eventually, it is discovered that the entirety of the European network backbone—including its root keyservers—has been compromised by Chinese hackers.It is more or less at this point that the wool is removed from the reader's eyes that "it's no longer a game," while Jack and Elaine develop a romance between action segments.