A brutal struggle in the cutthroat computer industry ... A shattering psychological game of cat and mouse ... A shocking accusation that threatens to derail a brilliant career ... These are the electrifying elements of the novel by the author of The Lost World and Jurassic Park. It is Michael Crichton at his galvanizing best....

An up-and-coming executive at the computer firm DigiCom, Tom Sanders is a man whose corporate future is certain. But after a closed-door meeting with his new boss — a woman who is his former lover and has been promoted to the position he expected to have — Sanders finds himself caught in a nightmarish web of deceit in which he is branded the villain.

As Sanders scrambles to defend himself, he uncovers an electronic trail into the company's secrets — and begins to grasp that a cynical and manipulative scheme has been devised to bring him down....