John Seeger (Steven Seagal) is a former Gulf War veteran who now works as a mercenary, and on his latest mission in Southern Africa, his close friend is killed. After returning to America, John decides to get revenge on the people in that were responsible for the failed mission, CIA operative Dresham and Black Ops Dealer Chapel. Dresham and Chapel on the other hand want John dead, so they send him on a suicide mission to rescue a drug dealer's son from a South African prison.