Successful entrepreneur Matthew Burton is having the worst day of his life. The deal of a lifetime flops, his own board is trying to sack him and his daughter wants him cancelled. But things are about to get much, much worse.Investigative journalist Tamara Morgan thinks she' s on the brink of bringing down a corrupt politician, but her nose is leading her to something much bigger. And much more dangerous.At a party at the Sydney Opera House, Burton mistakenly picks up a thumb drive intended for Tamara naming those responsible for the collapse of a newly built fifteen-storey apartment block that killed twenty-six residents. Suddenly, corrupt politicians, drug dealers and hired thugs all want Burton and Tamara silenced, for good.Burton' s a businessman, not an investigator.

He' s never even held a gun. But the untrained, outgunned and overwrought Matthew Burton discovers that there is one thing he has a natural aptitude for - causing carnage. If Burton can just accept Tamara' s help, they both might get out of this alive.