counterplot

Unlike the “Bourne” films, whose baroque webbing of plot and counterplot suggested an allegory of global paranoia, “Haywire” goes to great lengths to avoid being about anything beyond its immediate situations and effects.

From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2012

Conspiracy buffs will love the nearly incomprehensible swirl of plot and counterplot attending the great British Queen's rise to power.

From Time Magazine Archive

With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed!

From Time Magazine Archive

Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Be of good heart—we will set to work presently, and, if it be possible, counterplot this cunning witch.

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.

From St. Ronan's Well by Sir Walter Scott

Khrushchev can no longer invoke the capricious plotting, counterplotting and murders of Stalin's Kremlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir Robert Wingate listened while John Strong told the story of the plotting and counterplotting in Chicago.

From Ted Marsh on an Important Mission by Alice Carsey

Would all this trouble, the plotting and counterplotting, never end?

From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow

Over the plotting and counterplotting, the rivalries and jealousies which followed, we must pass.

From Love affairs of the Courts of Europe by Thornton Hall

He resolved to learn the nature of the plots that were in existence, before he commenced counterplotting.

From The Spy of the Rebellion Being a True History of the Spy System of the United States Army during the Late Rebellion, by Allan Pinkerton