Crimes Of Arrogance

After just two years of work, six certifiable geniuses from the tech world sell their software company for half-a-billion dollars.  Immersed in success and newfound boredom, the group feels a need to validate their talents on a grander scale.  They convince themselves they can achieve the unthinkable – perfect crimes.  But not real crimes.  Mock crimes on a weekly basis.  Crimes that parody the cases from an over-hyped TV show.

Through their weekend larks across the country, the anonymous pranksters gain enormous popularity – until the antics turn deadly.   One of the six has harbored ulterior motives and the other five become unwitting accomplices to a calculated plan that targets the family of Webb Tremont.

Webb Tremont is the son of a prominent billionaire and has spent most of his adult life trying to distance himself from the family’s vaunted history.   Seeking a higher standard than mere birthright, he is fascinated with the law and the people who enforce it.  To the dismay of his powerful father, Webb becomes a cop.  After events force him to leave police work, Webb practically stumbles into a career as an author, pulling together anthologies about officers of the law and the real crimes they’ve solved.

His books strike a chord.  One best seller leads to another – eleven in total.  Finally, a major network offers Webb Tremont an outlandish sum for the right to plaster his name to a new prime time drama.  The timing couldn’t be more perfect for six active minds looking to demonstrate their intellectual prowess.

Webb is thrown into center stage of a saga that captivates the nation.  Though he may have thought himself an expert on crime, and to some extent arrogance, nothing could have prepared him for the rollercoaster journey he and everyone close to him are forced to endure, or the unexpected manner by which justice ultimately is served.