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

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

In two of three new television shows, the singers are almost buried under plot and counterplot, characterization and attempted comedy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Still a third time the relentless tinkle sounded, and he was without plan, excuse, or counterplot.

From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Richard Bird

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

Instead of counterplotting, as I might have done, I was pleased at their frustrated efforts.

From The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat

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

From John Marsh's Millions by Arthur Hornblow

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

During the whole reign they were plotting and counterplotting, mining and undermining.

From The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery