Ex-Royal Marine Logan Palmer has settled into his new life as a dive instructor in Indonesia. It's the life he thought he wanted, but business isn't going well. So, when he is approached to act as a go-between in the handover of a kidnap ransom, he reluctantly agrees.
Palmer travels to Texas, but something isn't right. None of the kidnap details make any sense. The victims, Simone Kalu, and her teenage daughter Zahrah, have no money and nothing to offer the kidnappers. Or so it seems. Every instinct is telling Palmer to walk away from the job, but, if he does, there is no one else to help them.
When Palmer's worst fears are realised, they are plunged into the middle of a decades-old conspiracy at the heart of the establishment. Palmer will need all his skills to protect Zahrah as they are pursued from big city Texas to the swamps of Louisiana by corrupt law enforcement and the white supremacists who want them dead.
But with money, power, and political influence at stake, the odds aren't in Palmer's favour.