You are Zeb Carter, a deep black, special-ops agent based in New York. You work for a U.S. agency that doesn't exist. You are the go-to man when no other options exist. You are in the Democratic Republic of Congo to track down rogue mercenaries linked to the agency. They are killers, suspected of training rebel forces who are planning a coup. Locate. Observe. Record. Do not engage. That's your mission brief. You travel in the Congo and come across their trail of violence and death. You make your dossier and as you are preparing to leave, you come to a village. You witness an atrocity of such...

The three intruders burst into Hank Parker's home at dinner time. They kill his son and make him watch as they work on his wife and daughter. They turn on him when he evades their questions. Hank Parker isn't being evasive. He genuinely doesn't know what they are asking. Surrounded by his dead family, with his last breath, he gives them a name. It is the wrong answer. Special Forces Operative Zeb Carter is back. This time it is beyond personal.