A precocious young man from a rural area in Idaho quickly rises to become a successful business man in the biofuel industry, but the road to success and the glamours life that follows is paved with dubious partnerships and fraudulent, nefarious transactions. Eventually, the authorities look into the company but cannot put a finger on the problem, and the business keeps expanding and becomes one of the largest in the industry. But when information about improper business practices seems to be leaking, the atmosphere among the partners goes from great to testy to corrosive - and eventually deadly. Everyone is spying and is being spied on in a cat-and-mouse game of age-old methods and cutting edge technology, and it takes a complicated sting operation to force a dramatic confrontation. The ensuing manhunt ends in a deadly climax. Intertwining actions and some unlikely relations between the characters are richly described from the first to the last page in this fast moving story.