The year is 2030 and six years have passed since a criminal known only as the laughing man swept through top medical nanotechnology firms committing acts of cyber terrorism, kidnapping, extortion, and corporate espionage leaving no known suspects'. '.strtoupper('n')ew 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 citizens.who is the laughing man'? '.strtoupper('w')hat are his motives'? '.strtoupper('a')nd how do you catch a criminal that you cannot see'? '.strtoupper('j')oin 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!