Diabolical drug lords with little conscience instill fear and ruin lives. Jamie Morales is striking back.A Green Beret hero, Jamie returns to Southern California from the Middle East missing an eye and burdened by the horrors of war. After a difficult transition into life as a public citizen with his high school sweetheart wife, Brooklyn, he learns that his mother is harboring a fascinating antiquity once owned by Mexico's most notorious drug lord, Marco Delgado-the same man who murdered Jamie's father thirty years earlier. Assessing the risks of his mother owning something a brutal cartel boss once owned and wants back, Jamie acts to protect those he loves from a worst-case scenario. When his sister-in-law tries to broker a deal to profit by selling The Emerald Cross to Delgado, her plan backfires in terrifying ways.After the DEA, FBI, and two countries' elite forces fail to bring Delgado to justice for horrific deeds, the physically and emotionally injured ex-Green Beret does something he once promised Brooklyn he would never do again-pick up a weapon. Jamie isn't sure if his pursuit is about justice or vengeance, and he quietly accepts he probably won't survive the personal crusade stirring in his head.

Delgado's cartel in the Sinaloa Mountains of Mexico is about to be breached by a man who has lost everything that matters. Sylvia Sokolov, Jamie's ex-Army comrade and Black Hawk pilot, stubbornly inserts herself into her friend's pursuit. Together, they aim to achieve the impossible while reconciling their uniquely painful pasts. Amid the quest, Jamie discovers astonishing truths that rewrite his family's history and permanently alter his future. Then Sylvia risks everything for an unknown Mexican woman whose life lies in the balance, and their mission evolves in extraordinary ways.