Slick, cynical thriller with original screenplay by renowned crime writer Ross Thomas. Ex-CIA agent Nelson Crowe, played by Fishburne, is recruited to join an organization of former spies who now specialize in freelance espionage and corporate blackmail. But Crowe is a double agent, still working for the CIA, and susceptible himself to the threat of blackmail. Blackmailers blackmail fellow blackmailers in a series of plot twists and turns that reveal a world full of people who are worse than they appear.