When Cascader’s security team flags a mid-level employee accessing files he has no reason to view, CEO Nolan Marsh chooses surveillance over termination, wanting the full chain of evidence. Six months earlier, rival CEO Julien Renard had recruited that same employee over dinner in Paris, comparing corporate espionage to a spy film.

Cascader files its blockbuster lawsuit naming Renard personally, and the spy he recruited flees to Dubai with instructions to destroy his phone. But cornered and alone, Declan Foley makes the call that transforms a corporate dispute into a federal scandal: he offers to confess everything. The James Bond CEO headlines are only the beginning.

Federal prosecutors convene a grand jury and subpoena Renard’s own father as evidence surfaces that the espionage was not an isolated act but an alleged criminal enterprise spanning four companies. Both CEOs are losing control of the very thing they built, and a board member warns Marsh that his obsession with Renard mirrors Renard’s obsession with Cascader.

As deposition transcripts leak and an investigative profile exposes Marsh’s own complicated past, both men discover that the cost of their rivalry extends far beyond the courtroom. Renard surrenders control of his company. Marsh deletes a social media post for the first time. Neither gets a clean ending.