While working on a tense case, New York corporate lawyer Elizabeth Carlyle finds out that one of her junior associates has lost his phone and the secret documents that were on it. She needs help badly, and so she contacts ex-CIA officer Valencia Walker, a high-priced fixer who gets called in when wealthy people need their problems solved discreetly. Somebody has already copied the documents and blackmail is underway, resulting in leaks to the press and an unlikely suicide. It's getting harder for Elizabeth and Valencia to outmaneuver their tormentors, all the while keeping their own hands clean.