1. counterplot - Noun
2. counterplot - Verb
To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
A plot or artifice opposed to another.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe familiar Cape Cod setting works its spell, and the cranky, colorful New England characters work their way through a deftly amusing and baffling story of plot and counterplot. Source: Internet
Wolfe likes to spin spiderwebs of plot and counterplot inside his impressively constructed universes, and fortunately his innate sense of humor keeps matters from getting impossibly dense. Source: Internet