A very ordinary man wakes up in an African police cell. He has no idea how he got there, nor why he's there. He's tortured for information about which he has no idea, and then he's threatened with execution. When British Consular staff ignore his pleas for help because of a trade deal, he realizes that the only person who is going to help him, is himself. It's towards the end of the 1980s and all this is happening in the middle of a very unstable Zaire that is about to descend into civil war. He knows that to survive, he must escape. This he does, but only by killing some of his guards in the...