A chance encounter with an old friend destroys attorney Robert Dean's fast-track career and happy home life when he is framed for a murder by a corrupt intelligence official. As an administrator within the N.S.A., Thomas Brian Reynolds appropriates the vast resources of his department to commit the perfect crime and conceal a political cover-up of immense proportions. Dean's only hope to reclaim his life and prove his innocence is a man he's never met, a mysterious underground information broker and ex-intelligence operative known only as Brill.