


When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million; 15 years later, compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitous and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it’s all locked away behind super-encryption. Shear brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.