Poulsen explores in this page-turning tale the criminal exploits of a hacker of breathtaking ambition, Max Butler, who stole access to 1.8 million credit card accounts.

"Perplexed as to why people who seemingly had it all would risk it all just to acquire more, Eugene Soltes began an investigation into the mind of the corporate criminal. His journey into this netherworld included intense and lengthy personal interactions with the famous (such as Bernie Madoff, executives from Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and McKinsey) as well as those who are lesser known-- all of whom traded places of privilege for prison and disgrace....

With harm lurking around every corner, Kira starts equipping herself with an arsenal of manpower. It seems like everywhere Kira turns, someone else comes up dead. When one of the bodies is a judge friend of Kira's influential father, he has Dylan arrested, and threatens to expose the lethal money behind Kira's empire. And a ruthless homicide detective is on her trail, determined to nail Kira for murder. Kira must make a deadly choice-- but even all...

Nobody can know them all, certainly not Rudy Kurniawan, who never set eyes on Burgundy. In the end, it was his imprecise knowledge of a particular domaine's history that tripped him up. It happened amid extreme merriment, one spring evening, in New York. The mistakes that he made, minuscule and highly arcane, upended his life. Also upended would be the practices and pleasures of seekers after rare old wine.