Good bad good bad picks up where the first book left us. After the attack against brain implant manufacturer Neocuris has been somehow mitigated, we follow Kim to San Francisco where she is trying to stitch her relationships back together. She eventually makes it back to Portland where she will have to consider an amazing career opportunity at the cost of putting her personal life on the line again. But here the story takes an unexpected turn for the healthcare giant Neocuris.