The phrase "a complex plot involving" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a narrative or storyline that has multiple layers or intricate elements.
Example: "The novel features a complex plot involving betrayal, love, and unexpected twists that keep the reader engaged."
Alternatives: "an intricate storyline featuring" or "a multifaceted narrative that includes".
Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.
There, he becomes mired in a complex plot involving the wealthy clients he is protecting, a gang of paramilitary vigilantes and a shady special forces arm of the local police force.
As I read "The Rope Is the World", I kept imagining the 500-page science-fiction novel that it could so easily have been: crammed full of detailed scientific and technological arcana, with a complex plot involving the machinations of the powerful and the fate of cosmic enterprises or empires, all routinely punctuated by descriptions of sexual activities.
Similarly, the complex plot (involving the White House, secret identities, presidential babies, a woman facing the death penalty and a congressman filmed having sex) might have been more interesting were it not so overplayed and over-wordy (think Aaron Sorkin after too much Lucozade Sport).
Al-Qaeda, and in particular its Yemeni offshoot al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, is still keen on complex plots involving explosions and airliners.
In a measure of how rattled Kenyan society has become, many of the popular videos and messages on social media involved discussions on how to react to attacks by al-Shabaab, who seem to have abandoned complex plots involving car bombs and have now adopted the frighteningly low-tech method of sending in gunmen willing to die while taking scores of lives.
It's not just that Le Carré's complex plotting involves multiple strands of action that gradually interweave before unraveling to tumultuous effect, it's that the writer is at home in a world of ambivalent morality where things should never be viewed as black and white.
If you're looking for culprits, there are better candidates: *Two federal agencies with large budgets to investigate terrorism, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, failed to detect a complex plot, apparently by a well-known terrorist organization, that involved at least 19 men and years of planning.
She took the convention of the omniscient author familiar in classic 19th-century novels and applied it in a new, speeded-up, throwaway style to a complex plot of a kind excluded from modern literary fiction – in this case involving blackmail and intrigues over wills, multiple deaths and discoveries of secret scandals, almost a parodic update of a Victorian sensation novel.
I am not sure we need such a complex plot when a much simpler one will do.
Some reviewers praised the game for its complex noir plot involving a political conflict between Japan and the US, while others panned it as confusing and incomprehensible.
