Major Peter Shields, an Army Green Beret, is called back into action with the National Guard in this third book of the trilogy to fight against the most ferocious Mexican drug cartel in the "War on Drugs." His buddy, Capt. John Stokes, is captured and nearly executed before Peter and others rescue him in an unsanctioned action below the border. Peter's estranged fiancé, Rachael Aston, has been promoted to a Deputy Director position at the CIA, responsible for intelligence activities in the Americas. She's ambushed and captured in Mexico City by corrupt officials and cartel gang members. She'll be tortured and killed on YouTube by the cartel in retribution against the Americans fighting the drug war. Shields and Stokes assault a Mexican Federal Prison against orders to attempt her rescue.