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The high-tech industry is the industry of the new millennium, where fortunes are made overnight, where technical innovation makes leaps forward every day on the backs of a new generation of computer engineers, where starting salaries, bonuses, and stock options lure young talent away from traditional professions. One such individual drawn toward these financial rewards is Michael Patrick Ryan, who ranks top of his computer engineering class at Stanford University. Ryan chooses SoftCorp, Inc., headquartered in Silicon Hills, the nickname for the booming high-tech industry of Austin, Texas. SoftCorp's one client: the Internal Revenue Service.

But Mike Ryan has also fallen in the sights of the FBI. The bureau suspects that SoftCorp and the IRS are smuggling millions of dollars out of the country. The feds, however, can't prove it. The FBI's previous informant, an IRS employee, was mysteriously killed in an auto accident, while the agent running the investigation was brutally murdered. Now special agent Karen Frost takes over the case but needs a new insider to jumpstart it. The seasoned FBI agent bides her time, making her selection and then waiting for the right moment to make contact, well aware that SoftCorp monitors its employees. She manages to get Michael a message about the criminal agenda lurking beneath the surface of SoftCorp.