When Washington, D.C., attorney Stuart Clay is asked to defend ION Corporation executive Peter Delaney, the evidence seems overwhelming. Delaney was found unconscious beneath murdered CEO Marshall Keating, clutching the gun that fired the fatal shot. But Clay soon discovers that his client was drugged, framed, and targeted as a patsy. As he digs deeper into ION's secretive world, Clay uncovers corporate rivalries, hidden investors, dangerous intelligence connections, and a revolutionary cybersecurity technology called Scorpio One. When witnesses begin disappearing and Clay himself becomes a target, the murder investigation turns deadly. To save his client-and himself-Clay must expose a conspiracy reaching far beyond the murder.