Nathan Gamble is the quintessential amoral corporate titan, Gamble is CEO of Triton Global, a technology company which will be launched to supremacy by the acquisition of information systems giant, CyberCom. In the past, Gamble had suffered huge losses at the hands of investment enemies and has found a way to obtain revenge. He has discovered that Arthur Lieberman, Federal Reserve Board Chairman, is gay. He pays a young Wall Street investment analyst, Jeff Page, to seduce Lieberman and then blackmails Lieberman by forcing him to alter interest rates to destroy his enemies. Gamble is ruthless in other ways as well. He is willing to condone any type of criminal activity, including murder, in order to obtain CyberCom but does not realize the he himself is the victim of a double-cross by his partner, Quentin Rowe.