It follows Graham Weber, who has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it.

Weber isn't sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris, the CIA's in-house geek who runs the Internet Operations Center. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt that takes him into the hacker underground of Europe and the U.S., where a landscape of paranoia and betrayal await him.